I saw a video on another site in which the Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson describes Trump as a meteor about to create an “Extinction Level Event” for Republicans. For the record, on this site and I’m sure others questions have been raised about Wilson videos being AI generated and Wilson himself has addressed this. And told how to ensure it’s really him. I’ll get to that. But the video I’m providing is real, having been taken from the Lincoln Project itself. It’s a long one I’ll admit but worth the time. The biggest takeaway is that unlike the dinosaurs in the Cretaceous Period who might have glanced up and seen the meteor that led to their extinction Republicans can see the Trump “Meteor” and just like the dinosaurs can’t escape it and the effects when it hits.
There was a time when they could have avoided the fate of Trump wiping out the Grand Old Party. Party leaders could have kneecapped him back before Super Tuesday in 2016 but didn’t. They could have ended his ability to get elected to ANY public office, right down to dog-catcher in some MAGA town with not one but TWO impeachments. You’d have thought after the Jan. 6Â Insurrection Riot at the Capitol that would have been enough for the GOP to end Trump. However, they were hooked like crack addicts on the votes his MAGAs and/or Evangelicals could deliver so they chose to try and keep milking the toxic Trump cow.
There is so much Wilson has to say it would take an insanely long article even by the standards I had become infamous for to cover it all here. However there are just a few points I want to make, if only to get you to set aside over a half-hour and listen to Wilson for yourself. He covers “Wave Elections” and delves into how Presidential popularity factors in. He notes that Trump’s popularity is in Herbert Hoover territory and unlikely to recover. Trump’s approval has fallen badly, if not cratered on the issues most important to voters including MAGAs.
More importantly he covers the issue of Democratic ‘overperformance’ in a series of elections, making the point that he’s skeptical of an individual election here or there but TRENDS can be discerned and he sees one. A bad one for Republicans AND that they damn well see it too. Wilson says any Republican who last won, or won in a district/place by only ten percent is in deep sh*t. Another huge point he makes is about the so-called couple dozen or so “moderates.” He notes they talked a good game about being independent and paying attention to what voters in their districts wanted, yet have almost ALWAYS voted the way Trump wants them to on all manner of issues. To the tune of at least 97-98 percent of the time if not more.
Although he doesn’t put it in such words Wilson in effect is saying these Republicans are attached to Trump and no amount of trying can undo that. IF he says their Democratic opponents hold their feet to the fire. He has other suggestions he hopes Democrats will pay attention to and one that stood out to me was to avoid the culture war “trap.” I could go on and on but I implore you to watch this:
Again, this video is genuine. NOT AI. Instead of relying on the site where I first saw it I went to the Lincoln Project’s site. If you doubt me, go to YouTube yourself and type Lincoln Project into the search function. Subscribe, and you can see for yourself what’s posted here really is Rick Wilson speaking and on behalf of the Lincoln Project.
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“There was a time when they could have avoided the fate of Trump wiping out the Grand Old Party. Party leaders could have kneecapped him back before Super Tuesday in 2016 but didn’t. They could have ended his ability to get elected to ANY public office, right down to dog-catcher in some MAGA town with not one but TWO impeachments. You’d have thought after the Jan. 6 Insurrection Riot at the Capitol that would have been enough for the GOP to end Trump. However, they were hooked like crack addicts on the votes his MAGAs and/or Evangelicals could deliver so they chose to try and keep milking the toxic Trump cow.”
Denis, the GOP didn’t learn their lesson in 2010 when they could’ve accepted some losses (even in “friendly” territory) by disavowing the whole Tea Party movement and told them “Go on. Start your own party and see where that gets you” but, no. They were so eager to reclaim power (or, at the very least, be able to be more obstructive of Obama’s plans and programs) that they *eagerly* accepted the Teabaggers into their fold and then, in 2011, let the extremists take key positions in the GOP caucus. All of this set the stage for Drumpf in 2016. Once again, the GOP was more interested in gaining power at the expense of anything remotely resembling functional policy-making because the extremists were more interested in destroying the government and selling it off to the highest bidder (they’d already been outsourcing their bill-making process to ALEC–the overwhelming majority of “GOP bills” had been written by ALEC functionaries and passed through both houses virtually verbatim from the original ALEC template).
As the saying goes, “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” And the GOP is living proof of that.
And a lot of “progressives” seem to want to fall right in with the GOP’s failure. Back in 2010, I remember reading many “progressives” who were all ready for the GOP to take complete control of Congress and then, in 2012, the GOP would recapture the White House and, then, by 2020, the GOP would’ve so roundly screwed the country over that the “whole country” would be ready and eager to embrace THE “radical” progressive agenda. Obviously, that didn’t happen. The GOP made inroads in 2010 in Congress and Obama retained the White House in 2012 (even as the GOP made some more inroads and lost some ground in Congress) then, the GOP gained control of Congress in 2014. And we saw what happened in 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2024 and there’s a bit of a risk right now with the maniac in the White House and his compliant Congressional cohorts that we may not see any elections in 2026, much less 2028. (I know I’m being really pessimistic about the next two election cycles but we really need all these “progressives” to stop looking for the PERFECT candidate to support and go with the one who most closely aligns with their views, even if it’s just 50%. The 100% “progressive” will NEVER win the White House. If one could, then we’d see a lot more Democrats sitting in Governor’s mansions and in charge of a lot more state legislatures than we currently have.)
That progressive dig you are so fond of tinkling isn’t over yet. Rick Wilson’s meteor is visible from Earth now.