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I don't believe for a second they didn't know.
I don't believe for a second they didn't know.
Project Lincoln is dead after this.
if we're lucky
Quite possible. But is that enough to end them?
But that's kind of what I'm saying. Conservatism isn't evil. While you may disagree with the ideology, and I certainly do much of the time, it's not inherently evil. Trumpism is evil. It is dangerous. So I can appreciate what the Lincoln Project is doing and have a policy debate with them at the same time.
Plenty of conservative policy preferences are inherently evil.
Do tell.
I don’t think these are examples of conservatism being evil, and some are not conservative at all. For example, the truly conservative position in the war on drugs would be to promote freedom of choice and stop spending taxpayer money to fight people using certain plants. I have issues with the death penalty and lean pro choice, but neither side is inherently evil. And Citizens United isn’t an example of conservatism, it’s a Supreme Court case that was correctly decided and calls for a constitutional amendment.
Ok. Well trumpism is evil, and far more dangerous than prior Republican administrations, as seen by the effort to end democracy itself. It was the most important political battle of our lifetimes. And the Lincoln Project fought on the right side. So disliking them because of individual members’ views on specific policies is kind of missing the entire fucking point. It’s almost like complaining that the members of Seal Team 6 didn’t support Medicare for all after the Bin Laden raid. This wasn’t just politics as usual.