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No, and that's part of the problem with fascist tactics in general: there's a fundamental asymmetry in that contrarianism & tearing down institutions is a lot easier and more constrained than designing new policies and building things up. In a lot of cases, "the opposite or reverse" of a project 2025 policy isn't a single thing, but an unbounded number of possibilities.
(This is related to how fascist bad-faith rhetoric is so difficult to counter, since stooping to their tactics often only helps them achieve their objective of poisoning the well. See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law)
I feel like the easy approach to dealing with misinformation folks is to ask them to cite their evidence in one source and have that source live debunk their asses
Problem is that, in the post-truth world we are living in, there are large groups of people in online spaces who put feelings over facts. It doesn't matter what you can prove, it only matters what you know, because other things they believe in like religion and conspiracies that define their isolated worldviews can't be proven either.
Drag asked someone to cite a source the other day and they refused. They wanted drag to cite a source for saying there wasn't evidence. You can't prove a negative!