The force behind Project 2025: Kevin Roberts
Heritage Foundation was founded in 1973, but perhaps its most influential moment came during Reagan’s first term with its first “Mandate for Leadership,” the blueprint the foundation is now trying to replicate with Project 2025. The foundation claims that Reagan gave copies of the manifesto to “every member of his Cabinet” and that nearly two-thirds of the policy recommendations it laid out were either “adopted or attempted”.
Trump has endorsed a number of the Project 2025 ideas in his speeches and on his website
Nearly half of the project's collaborating organizations have received dark money contributions from a network of fundraising groups linked to Leonard Leo, a major conservative donor and key figure in guiding the selection of Trump's federal judge nominees.
Axios reported that while Heritage had briefed other 2024 Republican presidential primaries candidates on the project, it is "undeniably a Trump-driven operation"
Like many thinktanks that are for extreme things they things evolve through time, heritage foundation and their views have always been there project 25 is no different, it's just getting attention, and rightly so, being aware doesn't mean you have to jump on the outrage, doom & gloom, the world will end, bandwagon