In 2016, I sincerely thought “grab them by the p$%#” was going to be the end of the campaign. Ever since then, I’ve lived in a world of disbelief.
I did, for anyone who respects others’ dignity. The problem, of course, is that too many people don’t. Hence the disbelief of the rest of us that so many of our supposed civilized nation care not about dignity or compassion or value for anything past their own crude self-interest.
It doesn’t help any that a large percentage of the people who don’t care about anything but their own self-interest are letting other people tell them what their self-interest is.
“Keep gub’mint outta my Medicare!” etc.
I also remember thinking “there are checks and balances so any president can’t do irreparable harm”. Naive, hey?
in 2016 I learned a lot about my fellow Americans. Bad fucking news.
Lincoln Project’s newest video – July 19, 2020 about Trump’s Thugs in Portland.
“This Is How It Starts”
I’ve been watching some of The Lincoln Project’s videos and boy, oh boy are they brutal. And deservedly so. And without exaggeration.
I think the “This is How It Starts” one loses something by the comic book styling and the tone of the narrator. It’s way too serious of a situation to make it come across as a movie trailer.
Remember these are primarily aimed at Trump. Get under his skin get him seething and watch the fireworks.
I wonder if he can be goaded to the point of doing something on camera that can’t be explained away.
You’re right. Sunshine, rainbows and unicorns would have gotten the point across so much better. 
WTF does that even mean?
Some of them are definitely aimed at “an audience of one”. A notable example is “Whispers”, which is very explicitly addressed right at Trump.
Others are aimed at defeating various Republican Senators who have been Trump’s enablers. There’s definitely one (or two?) aimed at McConnell. There’s one aimed at Susan Collins. There’s one aimed at Martha McSally. The most brutal of them all is “Learn Their Names”. Check that out if you haven’t seen it yet.
ETA: And if you haven’t seen “Fellow Traveler” yet, that is definitely a MUST SEE. These Lincoln Project guys aren’t messing around! (I think I may have mentioned this one already somewhere up-thread.)
I think the style is echoing “Watchmen”, which was a popular comic/graphic novel before becoming a movie, and the TV series is recent, also very popular, and deals heavily in topics like racism and police brutality.
While I like the general tone of the ads, it does trouble me that they’re playing fast and loose with the truth. The McConnell ad, for example, implies that his rise in wealth is directly related to his shenanagins in the Senate. When the truth is he inherited most of his wealth from his wife’s family.
This gives the R’s cover for their sketchy relationship with true and false.
To truly undo the damage the Trump admin has done to the truth, the “good guys” shouldn’t be furthering the newspeak agenda.
Lincoln Project is Republicans so it all checks out.
“Does the Lincoln Project have a secret agenda? The answer is surprising.”
Washington Post op-ed, July 20, 2020. Columnist Greg Sargent interviews project founder John Weaver to find out what their agenda really is.
TL;DR, as I got it: They’re certainly not intending to be RINOs or converts to liberalism. Weaver’s description positions them as being somewhat progressive, certainly compared to today’s Republican party. Their ideal plan, apparently, is to boost a Biden administration enough to force an internal reckoning within the Republican party, leading to a renunciation of all things Trumpism.
Is that what everyone wants?
Well, as I understood the article, it seems to be what Weaver is saying the Lincoln Project wants.
Wicked anti-Trump ads, an endosement of Biden… Ah, for now I’ll welcome it.
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Yes, but someone characterized that as “surprising” and a “secret agenda.” There’s nothing surprising about it at all.