man, I don’t care if these guys are paying themselves in caviar and Supreme swag these ads are amazing. First one I’ve watched with sound. Not an ad so much as psychological warfare. pic.twitter.com/11QdLWOdo9
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 7, 2020
Right before doughfacedonny won the hearts and minds of soulless meatbags in the republican primaries with open racism and even more open aspirations of dictatorship to "get" the 'libs and brown people, the illustrious members of the Lincoln Project were honing their craft of shitting on Democrats and liberal ideas while whipping up the mob of religious fanatics and racist imbeciles to vote for a corporate-approved republican. They were all set to take over the party leadership after doughfacedonny and his thugs went down in flames to Hillary Clinton with a big, fat "I told you so" finger wagging. Then Lincoln Project members would revel in crushing the mob so they could get back to the real business of appearing respectable while doing... basically everything donny is doing, slashing taxes, giving corporations huge handouts, crushing labor, and waging more ridiculous wars of choice.
This is exactly what I fear they will go right back to once the common enemy is defeated.
Is the ad amazing? Sure. Are other ads and posts that members of the Lincoln Project good as well? Probably. When you have a collective century or two of experience building and running attack ads, over a century's worth of marketing and psychological warfare knowledge to draw on, and are well-funded (even from some liberals and liberal sources) then yeah, they ought to be good. Replies to Josh Marshall's tweet are largely fawning praise for how awesome these allies are and how much damage they are doing to doughfacedonny. But one stood out in its cautionary skepticism:
They are the Soviet Union advancing on Berlin.
— Gluon Spring (@gluonspring) July 7, 2020
Gluon was replying to this comment "Yes, but today they are helping to push Trump out, and that's huge.
It's not as if by speaking out against them today we'd prevent them from making ads about Dems in the future."
Now, in February of 2019 when we were still afraid Howard Schultz (and his never trumper campaign manager Steve Schmidt) would go the distance and siphon votes from the Democratic candidate for president, I wrote up a debate between Bob Cesca as host and Driftglass and Bluegal as guests where the former was enthusiastically selling his liberal credentials to cozy up to never trumpers and the latter were politely and civilly raising questions about whether that was a good idea. I have since stopped subscribing to Bob Cesca's show and started contributing to DG & BG's Patreon because it was time to stop being polite to the monster factory many years ago.
The reframing of never trumpers and the Lincoln Project in particular as the Red Army bearing down on the capitol of the Third Reich in terms of messaging and attack ad power seems apt. But I do stand by my assertion that the number of voters that they can bring amounts to a rounding error. Many credulous liberals providing cover for never trumpers as "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" and "'we' will dump them after the election" should really take a small refresher course on the end of WWII. Our ally of convenience, Stalin, kept his army parked where it had stood at the end of hostilities and didn't leave for 45 years. Driftglass keeps making the point that these never trumpers that made the Lincoln Project act like they are entitled to tell the Democratic Party how to run it's campaign, and are taking up seats on TV that should be going to Democrats and liberals who have been fighting the fascist takeover of the United States for longer than the last four years.
If never trumpers were willing to shed (rhetorically) the amount of blood that the Red Army spent in defeating the nazis, there might be some merit in supporting them. (As an aside, the Soviets never stopped screaming for more aid, more help, more materiel, and a second front in their great patriotic war that they even now claimed they won on their own, but that's another story) But thugs like Rick Wilson want to stand on Democratic heads and shit on them if they disobey orders from... thugs like Rick Wilson, as though they get to just jump in and run the place without penitence or making amends.
I posted on Facebook in response to what seemed like a liberal chorus praising Steve Schmidt for essentially calling doughfacedonny a giant poopy head for not doing anything to punish Russia when the bounties for dead American soldiers came to light.
Sure, all true words. We’ve never had a “faithless” president before, I mean bringing up Nixon, Reagan, Dubya Bush is completely off limits. Which leads into, why is criticism of republicans only valid if a republican is doing it? Why is the guy who worked for team evil until #doughfacedonny started saying the quiet part out loud and jumped at the chance to run a third party spoiler (Howard Schultz)’s campaign sitting in a chair on television when hundreds of liberals who have been right all this time are not? Don’t cheer the never trumpers, they are stealing our spot and will fall right back to calling Democrats traitors and cutting taxes for rich people the millisecond they get back in charge of the gop.
These never trumpers look like Reagan claiming that he won the Cold War without acknowledging the previous 7 presidents and 2 generations of containment policy that it took to stretch the Soviet Union to the breaking point. Only after doughfacedonny is finally peeled out of power there will not even be the pretense of trying democracy out in the new never trump GOP, it's straight to the Putin authoritarianism in that party only the next would be dictator won't be an illiterate cretin. And how dare you peasants question the saviors of the republic, not Joe Biden or the millions of Americans who vote him into office, no the whole lot of those allies of convenience in the Lincoln Project.
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