Project 2025 started a half century ago. A Trump win could solidify it forever | David Sirota

Trump is trying to complete the right's master plan. He must be stopped

You can be forgiven for thinking Vice-President Kamala Harris's first attack ad against Donald Trump seems a little far-fetched. Launched this week, the television spot has all the hallmarks of a YouTube video promoting an internet conspiracy theory. There's the obligatory scary music and the baritone narrator warning about a mysterious manifesto with the kind of cartoonish name that a Bond villain would label his blueprint for global conquest: Project 2025.

And yet, this isn't a Dr Evil send-up: Project 2025 is very real, it is absolutely Trump's agenda and it wasn't some slapdash screed that came out of nowhere. It is the culmination of the 50-year plot that our reporters at the Lever have uncovered in our new audio series Master Plan - a scheme first envisioned by the US supreme court justice who created the foundation for Citizens United and the modern era of corporate politics.

David Sirota is a Guardian US columnist and an award-winning investigative journalist. He is an editor at large at Jacobin, and the founder of the Lever. He served as Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign speechwriter