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Referenced by Jiang as part of Trump's current disruptive effort to wrench the U.S. system away from the status quo.
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Project 2025
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...him. But unfortunately, what's happened this time around, is because of Project 2025, Trump has to ensure the control over the bureaucracy through personnel..."
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Jiang uses Project 2025 as the name of Trump's openly articulated bureaucratic and political transformation program.
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Jiang invokes Project 2025 as a plan for remaking the federal bureaucracy, with ICE as one instrument inside that restructuring.
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Jiang uses Project 2025 as evidence that factions inside the deep state see Trump as a vehicle for reconstructing the federal administration to fit their ideology.
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Jiang says Trump now has greater bureaucratic control than in his first term and therefore expects obedient military implementation of a strike on Iran.
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He argues that Biden's 2020 victory did not improve ordinary life, which reinforced support for Trump as a disruptive force capable of throwing a wrench into the system.
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Jiang describes Trump and Project 2025 as an open revolutionary program that is already succeeding in transforming the federal bureaucracy, which makes Democratic weakness especially dangerous in this moment.
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He says ICE is one component of Project 2025 and ties its expansion to a broader revamping of the federal bureaucracy under Trump and his allies.
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Jiang argues that the deep state is not unified, and that certain factions saw Trump as an opportunity to remake the federal administration in line with their own ideology through Project 2025.
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"...him. But unfortunately, what's happened this time around, is because of Project 2025, Trump has to ensure the control over the bureaucracy through personnel..."
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"...disrupt the status quo, and he's doing that right now with Project 2025, right?"
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"...to democracy because um you know trump is intent on revolution project 2025 it is a global revolution and they're very open and public..."
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"...create a secret police. So, ICE is a factor in the Project 2025, a revamping of the federal bureaucracy. You have this government shutdown..."
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"...America more to liking and that and that's where we have project 2025 okay project 2025 comes from the fact that certain factions of..."
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"...what happened 2020. I mean, so so I think, you know, Project 2025, the law, the underlying hidden agenda of Project 2025 is to..."
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"...what propelled Trump into presidency. That's what's allowing him to implement Project 2025 which is to radically revamp the federal proxy. This is what's..."
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"You know, Project 2025 is really about revamping the federal bureaucracy and replacing the global deep state with loyalists to Trump. So, I would..."
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The host begins by asking who Jiang is and what Predictive History means.
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Jiang opens by saying the American empire is no longer even pretending to run a liberal order.
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Jiang starts from the harshest frame available: Iran is not one more crisis but the hinge on which the next half-century turns.
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Jiang's through-line is that a declining empire does not retreat cleanly.
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Jiang's argument begins with a simple civilizational scorecard: energy, openness, and cohesion.
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Stephen Akela invites Jiang on to explain how he predicted war with Iran, but the interview keeps widening until prediction becomes a whole model of late empire: a debt system that cannot tolerate peace,...
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The conversation starts with Iran, but it quickly becomes a wider map of how Jiang thinks history moves.
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Jiang begins with prediction as a disciplined loop, then turns the whole century into a religious struggle in disguise.
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