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Originally Posted by jayswin
Yes, but they're disingenuous. They make for great videos for the left to share, but they're anticipating a shift back to normally (for GOP standards). They are not anti-right, anything the right has been shifting towards, they are just hedging against a sinking ship (Trump) so they can collect all the rats later on.
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Let's get real here for a second. The Lincoln Project are indeed Republicans, but they are centrist Republicans who are not the bat #### crazy variety that are supporting Trump. There are a lot of thoughtful conservatives who have been abandoned by their party. This is a way for them to rest control of their party again and get back to some level of civility in politics and following of long established norms, like those set out in the constitution. Yes, they will remain Republicans, but the difference between the Lincoln Project Republicans and Democrats is not that much. They are battling for not just the existence of democracy in the United States, but the existence of their party. They can do both and do a service to the country.
Trump may be the one thing that makes the political mechanism take an inward look at itself and see the damage that hyper-partisan politics that Newt Gingrich and Mitch McConnell have fomented as the very bad thing that it is. Cooperation to stop Trump may finally end gridlock in congress when the dust settles.