Over the past couple of months, you’ve probably heard a lot about Project 2025 – the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation-backed plan that would help Donald Trump dismantle and destroy the U.S. federal government as we know it, transforming it from a semi-functional entity into one big theocratic, authoritarian, private-sector-grifter-run pile of shit.
If that sounds a lot like a description of the current Oklahoma state government, that’s probably because it pretty much is a description of Oklahoma’s government.
We’ve always been an experimental test lab of sorts for ultra-right-wing policies, grifter enterprises, and other bad conservative ideas that have long-term consequences. As this report in The American Prospect explains, that’s partly why we’re so far behind states like Connecticut when it comes to education, health care, poverty, etc.