One day before the impeachment of Donald Trump in the U.S. House of Representatives, it became apparent that this decidedly strange time in America\u2019s history was about to get a whole lot stranger. With the announcement by a handful of conservative Republican strategists, political consultants, and journalists that they\u2019ve founded a political-action group called the Lincoln Project, Democrats and progressives who have been raising ever louder alarm bells about the dangers of another four years of Trumpian chaos, corruption, lawlessness, government destruction, and outright cruelty found themselves on the same side of the political divide with some of the most stalwart conservative Republican insiders.<\/p>\n
The founders and backers of the Lincoln Project \u2013 attorney and spouse of Kellyanne, George Conway; former campaign chair for John McCain and consultant to George H.W. Bush, Steve Schmidt; and political strategist and journalist Rick Wilson, along with other prominent Republicans like Reed Galen, Jennifer Horn, Mike Madrid, Ron Steslow, and John Weaver \u2013 have declared that they intend to proudly lead the charge to oust via the ballot box in 2020 Trump and any Republican politicians who have thrown themselves onto the disgrace that is the Trump bus. And that\u2019s not all. In a shocking coup-de-grace, the Lincoln Project manifesto declares in no uncertain terms that the goal of the group is to forge in this time of high stakes for American Democracy and the rule of law an alliance with Democrats who share with the Lincoln Project\u2019s supporters a \u201cfidelity to the Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n
In an eloquent and brilliantly framed call to action, entitled \u201cWe Are Republicans and We Want Trump Defeated\u201d that was published in The New York Times<\/em> on December 17, 2019, George Conway, Steve Schmidt, John Weaver, and Rick Wilson outline why they and other Republicans decided to take this extraordinary leap \u2013 side by side with like-minded Democrats and other patriots \u2013 to right the ship of state and obliterate the perilous constitutional maelstrom that Trump and Trumpism have precipitated.<\/p>\n Below is an excerpt from the editorial. Read it. Take heart. And share it with everyone and anyone you think might take a few moments to process the seriousness of what\u2019s at stake.<\/p>\n \u201cPatriotism and the survival of our nation in the face of the crimes, corruption and corrosive nature of Donald Trump are a higher calling than mere politics. As Americans, we must stem the damage he and his followers are doing to the rule of law, the Constitution and the American character.<\/p>\n