Just How Deep Do David Sacks' Connections With Project 2025 Go?

A burgeoning organization with ties to White Nationalism has received positive attention from the Silicon Valley venture capitalist.

30 years ago, the so called ‘Republican Revolution’ swept the nation, finally cementing the Republican Party’s power over both the House and Senate. It was a monumental shift in the balance of power, placing progressives on the electoral back foot for over 20 years and securing a place for the hard right wing in the post Cold War order. For the foreseeable future, the country would be playing by the rules set out by Ronald Reagan and enforced by Speaker of The House, Newt Gingrich. Gingrich based this rise to power on the Contract With America, a policy plan that was engineered by The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.

The reason we remember this event is because its effects outlasted its popularity. Even after the (to put it nicely) incredibly lackluster performance of Bob Dole two years later, this Republican status quo held firm, with arguably the majority of the shots still being called from the office of a Georgia Congressman. This was by design, this was how the Republican Party would maintain its power.

This was also the year that a young David Sacks graduated from Stanford University and decided to try his hand at being a political commentator on the side of this burgeoning Republican Revolution. It was a logical path for his career to take, but ultimately not one that was to meant to be. At least, not for the immediate future.

Now, 30 years later, David Sacks has decided to support a new Republican Revolution. Enter: Project 2025. A plan by the Heritage Foundation for Donald Trump’s potential second term, Project 2025 has evolved into a coalition of likeminded Republican aligned groups with the goal of institutionally reshaping the country to conform with the Trump administration’s ‘America First’ ideology.

The idea makes sense in the context of the last administration. For the victories achieved in tax cuts and Supreme Court nominees, Republicans still failed to capture the institutional power necessary to overturn the 2020 election, if not alter voting patterns through legislation. This is also a moment of profound change in a Republican Party that different factions are jockeying for control of as Trump enters what is likely to be his final presidential race (don’t quote me on that, though). Project 2025 is the attempt by hardliners to take control, if not in the country, then at least in the party.

But Project 2025’s constituent parts still need money to operate, money that Republicans are not getting enough of for even crucial senate races. This drought of cash makes those that are able to make sizable donations much more powerful in the Republican Party. For specific groups, a well placed donation bank rolls a fairly autonomous yet loyal group. David Sacks may be one of those money men.