U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett is facing backlash from some quarters after criticizing Project 2025 and calling Christians “Nazis.”
While attending the Essence Fest earlier this month in New Orleans, Crocket (D-Texas) talked to AURN White House Correspondent Ebony McMorris about Project 2025. She criticized the project, claiming that it would eliminate DEI and that its emphasis on Christianity is “Nazism 2.0” and “Christofacism.”
“Let me just say Project 2025 is so bad that the former president came out today trying to distance himself from it,” Crockett said.
“Right now, what [proponents of Project 2025] are trying to do is institute Nazism 2.0 in the United States, and guess what, it’s going be us on the receiving end of all of it. So I can go on and on about the terrible things that are in there. But the basis of it is they’re saying it has to be Christianity, and the fact is everything has to be really Christofacism,” Crockett said.
Project 2025 outlines a set of policy proposals for the next Republican president. The initiative is based on a 900-page document called “Mandate for Leadership,” created by an organization known as The Heritage Foundation. The document calls for the overhaul of federal agencies such as the FBI, Department of Justice, and Department of Education, outlawing pornography, reversing DEI programs, and developing more nuclear power plants and new nuclear weapons, reported The Tennessean.
The Mandate for Leadership calls for expanding the president’s powers, including giving him the ability to replace civil servants with partisan employees.
More than 100 coalition partners and former Trump staff members are involved in the initiative.
Crockett’s comments garnered criticism from supporters of the initiative.
“Name one, Jasmine, without Googling or reading the actual project. Since you already know, and can apparently “go on and on and on about” it, give us one accurate example. You said a lot without saying very much at all, besides your ad hominem attacks on right-leaning people and Christians,” Nick Kangadis wrote on MRCTV.
“But, as usual, another moronic member of Congress is more than comfortable calling a group of Christians ‘Nazis,’ when they have no idea as to the level of atrocities carried out by actual Nazis,” Kangadis wrote.
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts said in an interview on Steve Bannon’s War Room that the project is a way to “take the country back.”
“In spite of all this nonsense from the left, we are going to win. We’re in the process of taking this country back,” Roberts said. “The reason that they are apoplectic right now, the reason that so many anchors on MSNBC, for example, are losing their minds daily, is because our side is winning,” Roberts said, reported The Oklahoman.
In a congressional hearing last month, Crockett said, “I don’t know why or how anybody can support Project 2025. In the United States of America, dictatorships are never funny, and Project 2025 is giving the playbook for authoritarianism as well as the next dictator to come in.”
The Dallas Express reached out to Crockett’s office but did not receive a response.