After the article was published, Rick Wilson personally responded to Donald Trump in a video.
Sending a cease and desist over a political ad? Pretty snowflakey weird beta behavior.
Id be so embarrassed if he were representing me.
I caught that video. It goes hard. I hope Trump personally sees it.
Considering one of The Lincoln Project’s favourite tricks is targeted ad buys in Florida and New Jersey on Fox when Trump is golfing at Mar A Lago/Bedminster I wouldn’t put it past them to put part of it in their next attack ad.
I love how some of their ads are just the tv bullying donald, which must be very strange for him.
aaand subscribed to the Lincoln project and motivated beyond my expectations.
There’s Republicans that believe in democracy and align themselves with US interests. They’ve been pushed out of the party for not supporting fascism but I never had to question if Romney, McCain or Kasich were working for Russians or Saudis.
I dunno, maybe if they larp it hard enough they actually will become good people.
There used to be decent republicans in office; I’m old enough to remember some of them. Our former state treasurer was pretty awesome, for example. Sadly, even his daughter has been bit by the looney republican bug. So now we have a democrat in that position.
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.
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.
“It is a really bad feeling to have your Constitutional Right to Free Speech, such a big part of life in our Country, so unfairly taken from you” -@RealDonaldTrump.
TBH I don’t watch Fox News so I’ve got zero context on any of this. At least this article actually talks about it instead of posting the mad twitter rant from Lincoln Project after the cease and desist.
