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.
So, I guess it’s no surprise that Oklahoma, with its well-established reputation as the petri dish for bad conservative policies, has become the perfect breeding ground for secretive gatherings of the elites and organizations pushing this agenda forward.
That brings us to former Stitt lieutenant Bond “Pork Chop” Payne – a.k.a. the sinister rich guy delivered straight from Central Casting.