But he’s the second Lincoln

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Ophelia Benson

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Apparently Trump is livid about a Republican campaign ad:

President Trump lashed out after an ad titled Mourning in America criticized his response to the coronavirus pandemic. The ad was released by The Lincoln Project, a super-PAC launched by a handful of Republicans including George Conway, a prominent lawyer and husband to White House counselor Kellyanne Conway.

Show us the ad then.

https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1257348720988913666

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5 responses to “But he’s the second Lincoln”

  1. Acolyte of Sagan Avatar
    Acolyte of Sagan

    Second Lincoln Imp, perhaps.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Imp

  2. KBPlayer Avatar
    KBPlayer

    It’s a good video. What’s it campaigning for specifically? Is it that the Republicans drop Trump as leader of the party in the next election?

  3. Freemage Avatar
    Freemage

    KBPlayer: I went to their website:

    OUR MISSION

    Defeat President Trump and Trumpism

    at the ballot box.

    We do not undertake this task lightly nor from ideological preference. Our many policy differences with national Democrats remain. However, the priority for all patriotic Americans must be a shared fidelity to the Constitution and a commitment to defeat those candidates who have abandoned their constitutional oaths, regardless of party. Electing Democrats who support the Constitution over Republicans who do not is a worthy effort.

    I have two issues with them.

    1: Too little, too late. This group should’ve been paying for ads and stirring up conflict with the Orange One during the 2016 primaries. And, of course, they’re a handful of voices, none of them in real positions of power. Maybe if they could get Romney to sign up.

    2: That river in Egypt. They fail to acknowledge that Trump was not a barbarian who stormed into the GOP castle, but rather the monster they stitched together in the castle basement–a body built of income inequality and lassez-faire economics, a brain rotted by racism and sexism, stitched together with some kowtowing to the Religious Right, and then electrified by the right-wing media machine of which Faux News is only the most public face. Anyone who was in the GOP during Dubya’s reign was part of that creation process.

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  5. KBPlayer Avatar
    KBPlayer

    Thanks Freemage. American politics are a mystery to me.

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