“New York Times” White House correspondent Peter Baker talked about Project 2025 on “Washington Week” with host Jeffrey Goldberg.

PETER BAKER: Yes, I think that’s right. I saw a tracker online and said that they’ve achieved or are in progress about 50 percent of the things that are in Project 2025. There’s lots there for them left still to do. One of the things that they’ve been very successful at, and I would expect to see more of, is their war on DEI, on the notion of diversity, equity, and inclusion, the notion that diversity is an admirable goal, even if you don’t necessarily want quotas. They have managed in just a very short amount of time to create a new culture in the country, not just in the government, across the board where private employers feel the need to retreat from DEI. And you’re going to see, I think, an acceleration of that in the second year. And I think that what’s going to be fascinating to see is whether there’s any backlash at some point, because there are — they take it so far, right, eliminating even discussion of slavery in some instances, eliminating Martin Luther King Jr. Day as free admission in the national parks in favor of a free admission on Donald Trump’s birthday. At some point, the question is, do people, and this is a very multicultural — JEFFREY GOLDBERG: Trump’s birthday happens to fall on Veteran’s Day. PETER BAKER: Flag Day. JEFFREY GOLDBERG: Flag Day. So, at least there’s a — PETER BAKER: Yes, which was — JEFFREY GOLDBERG: Are they really doing that because of his birthday though? Have they articulated it that way? PETER BAKER: Yes, they put it on the list. It’s Donald Trump’s birthday. They put them on the list. By the way, Flag Day was not a free admission day last year when it was also done. JEFFREY GOLDBERG: That sounds very Turkmenistan-ish. PETER BAKER: Well, if Turkmenistan had a Kennedy Center, you would not be surprised, right? I mean — JEFFREY GOLDBERG: Right, right. PETER BAKER: I think the question that was in a multicultural country at some point, does that begin to go too far for people and by the midterms? We’ll see. JEFFREY GOLDBERG: To be fair — and I want to get over here quickly, but to be fair the Democrats, according to polls at least, have gone too far in the identity politics area — PETER BAKER: There’s a backlash by people who feel like things got crazy. JEFFREY GOLDBERG: The opening was created. PETER BAKER: I talked to a young pollster, a college pollster who asked people in New York at a focus group, what word do you associate with the Democratic Party? He says, H.R. department.

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