After the article was published, Rick Wilson personally responded to Donald Trump in a video.
oh i don’t know anything about them, is the Lincoln project republican?
I’m assuming not, but I’m just looking for some context for your comment.
why is the Lincoln project your enemy?
Like others have said, very much “enemy of my enemy” thing. Old school republicans, Rick Wilson for example worked on George H.W. Bush’s campaign.
I love what they’re doing getting under Trump’s skin, but once he’s no longer a threat they’ll return to being the enemy. For the moment we can enjoy their work, though.
jesus, okay. thanks. HW, gross.
guess i have to listen to the “know your enemy” podcast instead.
The latest episode was a great interview about the hollowing-out of the parties.
why is the Lincoln project your enemy?
Okay, cut the cult of Trump out of the GOP, and what are you left with?
A party that wants to cut taxes on the rich, privatize public services (read: funnel tax money to the rich), privatize education (read: funnel tax money to the rich while removing education from the poor at the same time), ban women from getting abortions, infect what remains of the government with Christofascistism, shove the LGBTQ movement either in the closet or out a window, stuff the judiciary with unqualified partisans who issue rulings based on conservative ideology instead of sound jurisprudence, and roll back all progress made against the wealthy for the last hundred years. All of these policies predate Trump by decades, and he is more than happy to enforce these policies as long as he can enrich himself while doing so.
You know all the noise that’s being made about Project 2025 and how borderline treasonous it is? Trump had nothing to do with it- the think tanks that wrote it basically just compiled a wish-list of conservative policies, and are just waiting for the next Republican president to enact it. It’s much like the US/Soviet Union at the end of WWII- we’re happy to have their help against the greater threat, but that doesn’t make them not a threat themselves that need to be dealt with.
