• The Lincoln Project Was Always Based On A Lie - Now It's Been Exposed

    From Sista Kamalah@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 28 09:20:04 2021
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    Since founding The Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump Super PAC, the
    Republicans behind it wanted you to believe that they were so
    disgusted by their party’s sycophancy that they had dedicated
    themselves to dethroning the president, the nominal head of
    their party. With their viral tweets — which are reportedly just
    stolen content from meme-makers — and scathing ads that
    undermine Trump's administration one Mark Hamill-narrated ad and
    anti-Ivanka billboard at a time, The Lincoln Project fashioned
    itself into an unlikely hero in the mission to oust Donald Trump
    from office.

    But after raising $64.7 million, according to Federal Election
    Commission data — and with no proof those funds did anything to
    move the election needle — the PAC seems intent to demonstrate
    that Trumpism is not a flaw in the Republican Party, but its
    ethos.

    In a series of tweets, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez urged the
    founders of The Lincoln Project to “do the right thing” and use
    the substantial funds they accrued during Trump’s presidency to
    pay for the needs of Black and brown grassroots organizers who
    actually made it possible for now president-elect Joe Biden to
    secure the White House. “There’s potential incentive be
    @ProjectLincoln is def in scam territory w these results. It’s a
    pretty bad rep even tho GOP has a thing for failing up,” she
    said. “Come clean, say ‘listen, we thought it’d work, it didn’t,
    & in good faith we’re gonna raise X mil for these ppl who
    deserve it.”

    According to their own projections, The Lincoln Project garnered
    at least $67 million in fundraising over the course of the 2020
    election. Instead of admitting defeat, though, as AOC suggested
    they do, the Republicans behind the Super PAC have doubled down.
    “AOC is mad at us. QANON Republicans are really mad at us.

    @realDonaldTrump is really, really mad at us. Must be doing
    something right," former New Hampshire GOP chairwoman and The
    Lincoln Project founder Jennifer Horn tweeted.

    But Horn's assertion only goes to show that The Lincoln Project
    was less about making any substantial dent in outcome of the
    election than it was about being a vanity project meant to
    protect the reputation of a few Republicans who don’t want to be
    attached to the specific nightmare that is the Trump
    administration.

    They certainly didn't care about actually changing Republican
    voters' minds — or, if they did, they weren't very good at it.
    Exit polls have shown that 58% of white men and 55% of white
    women voted for Trump in the 2020 election. A reported 93% of
    Republicans and 40% of Independents also voted for four more
    years of Trump — all of whom are The Lincoln Project’s so-called
    target audience.

    Besides, what needs to be remembered about The Lincoln Project
    is that they never cared about helping Democrats, but only about
    helping themselves. If The Lincoln Project was really dedicated
    to getting rid of Trump, they would recognize that the only way
    to do that is to get rid of the forces that created, enabled,
    and supported Trump. They can't do that, though, because they
    are those very forces.

    So while it would be nice to think that they'd throw their money
    behind the Black and brown grassroots organizers that saved this
    democracy, and the just take the L and step aside entirely,
    that's never going to happen. Instead, they'll just continue to
    do what they've been doing all along — grifting the American
    public.

    https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/11/10157046/the-lincoln- project-election-money-aoc-backlash

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