The Left is trying to scare black people again, what’s new?  But as a young black American, I’m sick and tired of it. In every single election year, they deploy the same tried and tired tactic to whip people that look like me into political submission. They compare Donald Trump to Hitler. They equate the Republican Party - the Party of Lincoln - to the Ku Klux Klan. They deploy black surrogates like Tavis Smiley - a supposedly serious individual and longtime talk radio host - to stroke baseless and flagrant hysteria as he did in 2016 when he penned an op-ed for TIME Magazine entitled “Why I Fear America Could Enslave Black People Again”. And every single election year, the mainstream media gives them a pass. It doesn’t matter how absurd the charge is. 

And this year, they’re trying to do the same thing as it relates to Project 2025, an independent effort spearheaded by the conservative non-profit The Heritage Foundation: mischaracterize, misconstrue, and if necessary, blatantly lie. It reeks of desperation. But it makes sense. Why? Because the Democrats are indeed woefully desperate. As debate engulfs the Biden campaign, not only about whether or not he’s fit to run, but fit to serve, his support is nose diving among a constituency that the 81-year-old President cannot afford to lose: black voters. 

As I wrote earlier this week, according to a recent report by the Center for Politics at The University of Virginia, American political scientist and author Alan Abramowitz reported that recent polling from six independent pollsters - Quinnipac, NYT/Siena, CBS/YouGov, Daily Kos, The Economist, and Yahoo -  showed a “breakthrough for Trump”. Abramwitz writes, “on average, Donald Trump received 18% of the vote from Black voters who expressed a preference for either Trump or Biden in the six national polls. If that result were to hold up in November, it would represent by far the highest level of Black support for a Republican presidential candidate in the past 60 years. 

This scares the hell out of the Democrats and it should, which is why they’ve reached the point of the election cycle where they are simply throwing anything out there just to see what will stick. They took to the Black Entertainment Television (BET) Awards to fear-monger about the dangers of Project 2025. They amplified a viral meme (viewed nearly 6 million times) - riddled with misinformation - that alleged that Project 2025 would end civil rights protections for black people, ban African-American studies at all levels of education, and ban books and curriculum about slavery. 

There’s only one obstacle to their narrative however: the truth. Nowhere within The Mandate For Leadership - a 900+ page publicly accessible document upon which Project 2025 is based -- does it call for the elimination of civil rights protections. Nowhere within The Mandate For Leadership are African-American studies or gender studies even mentioned. And nowhere in The Mandate For Leadership does any author advocate for banning books or curriculum related to the repugnant institution of slavery.

In fact, as a conservative, I’d imagine the folks at The Heritage Foundation would want more young people to learn more about slavery and how the Democrat Party was even willing to betray their own country to preserve the evil institution. But that’s neither here nor there. 

Instead of trying to win back black voters with policy, the Democrats have resorted to fear-mongering. And I for one am done with being lied to. I am over being gaslit. And I am tired of the faux concern from a Democrat Party that doesn’t actually give a damn about black or brown people but only cares about their votes. And this sentiment isn’t isolated to me. I hear it throughout the black community. 

Under Joe Biden, black voters have shouldered the weight of runaway inflation, record high gas prices, and economic anxiety unlike anytime in recent history. Under Joe Biden, black Americans aren’t thriving; they’re barely surviving. 

I’ll take Project 2025 over that any day.