Colonization in disguise: Project 2025’s global reach

Project 2025, a conservative blueprint aimed at consolidating power in the presidency and institutionalizing Christian nationalism, includes an international framework with dangerous implications for women and LGBTQ communities around the globe. Under the guise of Christian values, American conservatives are pressuring countries reliant on foreign aid to adopt anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ legislation. “They’re going to use reproductive policies as well as policies on LGBTQ people to try and control different nations around the world,” says Anthea Butler, an MSNBC analyst and chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. “The U.S. government under the guise of Christian nationalism, [is] trying to infiltrate countries and control them.”