Project 2025 is one of the most pernicious plans for an American presidential administration ever conceived, not just for what it is but also for how it might be implemented. Its far-right policy prescriptions could transform the federal government into a MAGA instrument of authoritarianism. Many of them are in fact familiar planks that have been recycled through decades of hardline conservative platforms. But in Project 2025 they’ve taken on an America-First snarl and sweep, and they would be most destructive in the hands of an unscrupulous second Trump administration. Equally alarming is tha…