The Wall Street Journal editorial page should be commended for dispelling fears about Project 2025 (“Who’s Afraid of Project 2025?” Review & Outlook, July 29). Our Mandate for Leadership has been publicly available for more than a year, but the left decided to train its fire on us only after President Biden’s disastrous debate performance in late June. Since then, MSNBC alone has mentioned “Project 2025” more than 1,500 times.

Vice President Kamala Harris and the rest of the mainstream media are no better. They fearmonger relentlessly about Project 2025, making false claim after false claim. They most likely do so because it represents the greatest threat to the power of their undemocratic administrative state.

Some of these claims are serious, such as the notion that Project 2025 suggests cuts to Social Security. As your editorial points out, Project 2025 actually disappointed some conservatives because it didn’t propose any cuts to Social Security or changes to the retirement age.

Some claims are ridiculous, like the idea that we believe “the only valid family is a working father married to a stay-at-home mother and their children.” My own parents were divorced, and I was raised with the help of my grandparents.

Others are downright lies, such as the claim that Project 2025 was created by President Donald Trump. Both Heritage and Mr. Trump have made it extremely clear.

The truth is, since President Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, The Heritage Foundation has published a new Mandate for Leadership every four years to serve as a stockpile of conservative policy recommendations from which our leaders can pick and choose. Then as now, most reasonable Americans could find some proposals they like and some they don’t like. That’s OK.

We welcome the disagreement because we believe that Americans deserve a real democratic debate on important policy issues, not leaders who are chosen in backroom deals and who run from their records.

The border czar, Ms. Harris, and her cronies can continue to lie about Project 2025, but it will only underscore their own dishonesty and failure, from our stagnant economy to the wide-open southern border.