They’re just trying to shift back to keeping their desire for a plutocratic/christofascist autocracy on the down-low.
The problem is that their goals are explicitly anti-American, but their supporters tend to pride themselves on being, if anything, ultra-American.
And as more of the details of Project 2025 are revealed, an increasing number of those lunkheads are starting to go, “Derrr… hey, wait a minnit! This don’t sound very American to me!”
So the fascists have shifted to that age-old “What, that? I don’t know anything about that - someone else must’ve left it here. Just ignore it.”