So, now we know how our country will be different for
the next 100 years...all I can say is thank goodness I
am 70 and my years here on this earth are limited and I
won't have to see, go through and endure the horrors
that are planned for the next 100 years. But what kind
of country will it be for our grandchildren and great
grandchildren????
"Well-funded MAGA forces close to the White House are
preparing a "100-year plan" to try to sustain Trumpism
long after President Trump leaves office.
Why it matters: Top executives at the America First
Policy Institute tell Axios that the group is scaling
up as an incubator for the America First movement
beyond Jan. 20, 2029 — promising to proselytize its
policies for the next century.
The big picture: The institute was launched in 2021 —
by now-Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, now-
Education Secretary Linda McMahon and Larry Kudlow, a
Fox Business host who was a first-term Trump official —
to help keep Trump's ideas in the political ether after
he left office.
During the president's Mar-a-Lago exile and through his
2024 comeback bid, the institute became something of an
administration in waiting, pumping out policy papers
and staffing up with Trump 1.0 alums.
Now AFPI is retooling as a shadow White House policy
shop — and training ground for future administration
talent.
The group — along with America First Works, a sister
organization focused on political work and policy
advocacy — just moved into a posh new office on
Pennsylvania Avenue next to the Willard
InterContinental, wedged between the White House and
Capitol.
Zoom in: The group is naming an expanded leadership
team "to further advance the America First movement and
policies that put the American people first."
Greg Sindelar, CEO of the Texas Public Policy
Foundation (TPPF), is interim president and CEO,
replacing Rollins. "This is about thinking not even
five years down the road," Sindelar told us. "This is
about thinking 100 years down the road, and how do we
make AFPI a permanent institution in the public
square."
Chad Wolf, Trump's former acting Homeland Security
secretary, will be AFPI's executive vice president and
chief strategy officer.
David Bernhardt, Interior Secretary in Trump I, is an
EVP focusing on litigation and research.
Between the lines: Trump's current administration is
packed with AFPI alumni, including Attorney General Pam
Bondi and other officials.
Wolf said Trump is "outcome-driven and outcome-based.
But lots of times, there's a lot of work that goes into
that, into achieving those outcomes ... That's what
we're doing here, which is providing that outside
support system for that America First movement, which
is now inside government."
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