evidence: As the 2024 presidential election begins to cast its shadow over the American political landscape, leading Republican figures have renewed their efforts to present themselves as tribunes of the working class. These so-called "populist" Republicans tend to offer much in the way of extolling supposed working-class culture and ventilating perceived working-class grievances but few, if any, specific policy prescriptions to materially advance working-class interests. Last month, however, the Heritage Foundation sought to fill that void by releasing a comprehensive manifesto, dubbed Project 2025, designed to serve as a policy blueprint for the next Republican administration. The report, spanning nearly a thousand pages, is sweeping, the product of collaboration among hundreds of rightwing scholars and dozens of conservative thinktanks. The project contains a chapter outlining numerous proposals for labor-related legislative action from Congress and regulatory action from the DOL, EEOC, and NLRB, all formulated with an apparent view to "restor[ing] the family-supporting job as the centerpiece of the American economy." While that underlying aspiration may be laudable enough, the proposals would in reality do little more than compound working people’s economic plight and undermine the very family-centric social vision they seek to foster.