Democrats’ ‘Project 2029’ Looks A Whole Lot Like Their 2024

After the losses of the Democratic Party in the 2024 elections, some members of the party borrow from the republican game book by presenting an all-in-one package of democratic policies called Project 2029.

The project chief architect, Andrei Cherny, told New York Times (NYT) that vice-president Kamala Harris had lost her presidential candidacy because she had attacked the ideas of President Donald Trump rather than promoting her own program. Its plan has a striking similarity with the 2025 project of the Heritage Foundation, a set of policies used by the left to attack Trump in the 2024 elections.

“The oldest truism of politics is that you cannot beat something with anything,” former Democratic editor told The Times.

Cherny constitutes a team of democrats to write and publish proposals for quarterly policy over the next two years by democracy: a newspaper of ideas, culminating in a book to guide the candidates in 2028. However, the people would have chosen for the board of directors of the team and the former secretary of state Hillary Clinton. (Related: Housman: It’s time for Trump to have the China delay bomb)

Cherny told the NYT that the team he wrote to write the plans represented “the Avengers of Public Policy” and “the best thinkers of the whole spectrum”. They intend to organize public lectures to eliminate their differences. The group will address subjects such as national security, economics and education policy.

Avengers… .Assemble! https://t.co/1ah2tmyqgs

– Andrei Cherny (@andreicherny) June 30, 2025

Neera Tanden is one of the persons sitting on the advisory council, according to the NYT. She is currently heading the Think Tank Center Progressive for American Progress and served Biden as staff secretary and principal advisor. The former aid testified before the chamber’s surveillance committee last week in the midst of an investigation into the mental form of Biden.

Biden appointed it in 2021 to be the head of the management and budget office, but withdrew his appointment after the counterpoup, notably the Republican senator of Louisiana John Kennedy. The former Biden collaborator deleted approximately 1,000 tweets within two weeks of appointment, according to Wayback Machifs Archives.

The former Biden National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan also has a headquarters on the board of directors, the NYT reported. He would have proposed to resign after the disastrous withdrawal of the United States of Afghanistan, which led to the death of 13 members of the service.

The former president of the New America Foundation (NAF), Anne-Marie Slaughter, is another member of the board of directors, according to the point of sale. Slaughter was the director of policies planning in the State Department under the secretary of the time, Hillary Clinton, according to his biography of NAF. She is also an author published on subjects such as “global governance” and international affairs.

Jim Kessler, a founder in Third Way, also sits on advisory council, reported the NYT. According to his biography, Kessler was legislative and political director of the Democrat minority, the Sen. Chuck Schumer from New York and worked with him on the control of firearms. The organization describes calls its activities “at the center on the left”.

Felicia Wong, former president of the Roosevelt Institute, is another member, according to the NYT. It served under the Biden-Harris administration as vice-president of the Treasury Advisory Committee on racial equity. “Any effort to treat inequalities in the United States must take into account the heritage of racial exclusion integrated into our economy,” she said in a release from the Treasury department in 2022.

The Roosevelt Institute calls for economic rules “rooted in shared values ​​of equity, inclusion and sustainability”.

The economist Justin Wolfers is the last member of the board of directors, the NYT reported.

Some Democrats have expressed skepticism with regard to the project, arguing that the group would not be able to establish a coherent political program or that politics was not the question that the party is confronted, according to the point of sale.

“The development of policies by verifying each coalition box is the way we have obtained this mess first,” said Democratic author Adam Jensleson, adding that people who push policies must face the “Borg interest group”.

“We have not lacked policies,” said the Celinda Lake Democrat poll to the point of sale. “But we lack functional narrative to communicate these policies.”

On Sunday a panel of CNN, the political strategist Maria Cardona underlined the tactic of the socialist democratic candidate of the town hall of New York, Zohran Mamdani, as the approach that the party could use, suggesting that this was similar to the strategy of President Donald Trump.