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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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