For what it's worth, it was part of Project 2025 - something one of the candidates claimed to know nothing about...

I'm sorry but Project 2025 still strikes me as fanfiction

What part of it makes it fanfiction to you? Multiple authors of the document are now in cabinet positions in the new administration.

You're right, you weren't paying close enough attention.

What do you mean? There are people who wrote parts of Project 2025 who will be in the next government, or do you think the Heritage Foundation has no ties to the future Trump government at all?

Not sure how you can maintain this belief when you're acknowledging the destruction of agencies in accordance to Project 2025.

Also hard to ignore him nominating several of the authors of, and people involved in, p2025 to his cabinet.

A lot of people who weren't paying attention are going to be saying "I didn't know", "How could've I known", "Why didn't anyone tell me", in the coming months and years.

It's unfortunate so many will suffer at the hands of the disengaged and the misinformed / poorly informed voters of this country.

I'd like to think they'll pay attention after this, but I thought the same thing last time around.

"I never thought leopards would eat MY face"

they're literally talking about deleting agencies, which was explictly mentioned in the plan.

several of the authors have already received / been earmarked for appointments.

if someone says "i'm going to blow up a building", and then starts buying a ton of dynamite, it's pretty reasonable to assume they're gonna blow up that building.

As a non-American I didn't see it in public discussion in US's media but it was very clearly outlined on Project 2025 when I read it.

The Republican Party Platform says: "We are going to close the Department of Education in Washington, D.C. and send it back to the States, where it belongs, and let the States run our educational system as it should be run."

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/2024-republican-pa...

Trump also mentioned it frequently in his speeches: " 'I say it all the time, I’m dying to get back to do this. We will ultimately eliminate the federal Department of Education,' he said in September during a rally in Wisconsin. "

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/20/politics/department-of-educat...

That platform has some puzzling things in it, like saying that if they win the White House and majorities in Congress they will quickly "Fight for and protect Social Security and Medicare with no cuts, including no changes to the retirement age".

That's puzzling because every time in the past few years that anyone in Congress has tried to take up addressing the projected insolvency of the Social Security trust fund in ~2033 Republicans have rejected any approach other than raising the retirement age.