My view on the Lincoln Project

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24. Rubin/Lincoln: "If you supported Trump, your political career should end."

That message is likely to be amplified by the pandemic holocaust devastating people and economy.

And this is just part of a swell of discussion about whither goest the RW party after Trump. The GOP leadership committed to becoming a hard-right, white male-dominated party serving the wealthy back in the 1980s-90s, accelerating into massive corruption, betrayal and extremism in this century. Trump's election was a voter rebellion against their own party leadership, their second rebellion that failed disastrously.

The GOP's massively corrupt leadership has to be purged, and their voters are the only ones who can do it, but they need leadership so they don't latch onto a "kinder and gentler" Hitler for their next try. Rubin's obviously hoping these guys will help build a new party she can belong to.

Rubin: This is likely only the beginning of efforts to clear the decks in the Republican Party — for those interested in rebuilding it. Trump is not the only person who must lose if the party is to be rescued; the partners in Trumpism must go down with him. (In my mind, it will require such a thorough transformation you might as well start over with a new name and logo. The “Lincoln Party” or the “Union Party” might work).

If one believes there should be no place in U.S. politics for a party built on white grievance, contempt for truth and just plain meanness, it is necessary to show that the problem was just not Trump but the men and women who went along with the cult, the lies, the worship of the Confederacy, the attacks on the rule of law and the xenophobia.