The Lincoln Project is krytonite to Trump’s reelection campaign, which is having enough problems of its own even without the anti-Trump Republican strategists. What do you say about a campaign that has no message and is pulling ads right and left, 90 days out from the big day? Not to mention the ads that Twitter and Facebook have pulled on their own volition? The days of Corey Lewandowski and Paul Manafort were halcyon compared to this.
Paradoxically, Trump is in big trouble with suburban women, as a demographic. And he thinks that stoking fears of blacks and other minorities invading the suburbs is the way to win them over. And the Lincoln Project, in diametric opposition, thinks that showing the Portland protests’ moms in yellow with their sunflowers, peace signs and linked arms, is going to win the suburban women’s vote.
I agree with the Lincoln Project. You know why? Because love and courage are better motivators than fear. And Trump can’t get that. It is that basic. Are you shining the light or ginning up fear of the darkness?
Trump knows nothing of love. I think he actually considers it a weakness. It goes with out saying that courage is not in his vocabulary.
The only hope is when he lays down to sleep, he’s visited by three phucking terrifying ghosts. Maybe if scrooge can do it, stooge can too. Otherwise, the antichrist belches on.
Um, Scrooge wasn’t visited by any “terrifying ghosts” (in the story, he’s unnerved by them upon their initial appearance* but the only one he describes as being truly frightened by is the Spirit of Christmas-Yet-to-Come) and, he’s actually visited by FOUR (remember, he gets a visit from the spirit of his deceased partner, Jacob Marley, who warns him of the other three). Additionally, it’s a bit tough to say that “if Scrooge can do it,” since he had little to do with “it” in the first place other than leading his skinflint existence; it’s not certain WHO was responsible (Dickens chooses to omit that information).
*Obviously, most of us would be unnerved, to say the least, by the appearance of ghosts/spirits/apparitions/what-have-you (even if we were forewarned of their appearances) but it’s really tough to describe either the Spirit of Christmas Past or the Spirit of Christmas Present as “terrifying” by any stretch of the imagination. (Christmas Past is described in the original story as a largely amorphous being, randomly changing appearance–having one leg at one moment, then twenty the next. Christmas Present is described as pleasant and jovial.)
The Republicans don’t know how to search for converts, or make them, they are consumed with searching for heretics.