It's never just a troll, though. Republicans test the waters for changes they genuinely want to make, and whenever there's significant enough blow-back, it's a

It's never just a troll, though. Republicans test the waters for changes they genuinely want to make, and whenever there's significant enough blow-back, it's always "we're just joking, why are you guys so upset?". We saw that as recently as the last election - some of the project 2025 stuff was leaked, people got upset about it, and then suddenly, Trump's campaign was quick to disavow any connection to or even knowledge of project 2025. Once he got into office, he started running through the project 2025 playbook exactly as written.