Steve Schmidt, co-founder of The Lincoln Project and senior strategist for President George W. Bush
Posted on 11/14/2020 6:08:48 AM PST by MarvinStinson
The president's dangerous accusations are baseless.
And by encouraging them, conservatives are injecting cyanide into the country's polity.
Today, more than a week since Election Day, GOP leaders across the party are still enabling President Donald Trump's baseless election fraud lies. And what that says, quite simply, is that we're in a lot of trouble as a country.
Former Vice President Joe Biden has won the election. Every one of these Republican members of the House and the U.S. Senate are sophisticated politicians. They all have some fluency in vote counting, and they know Trump lost. The president's dangerous accusations are baseless. And by encouraging them, conservatives are injecting cyanide into the country's polity. It's a lethal poisoning of faith and belief in the system, and it is astonishing to see it playing out in real time.
We are Americans. This is how we pick our leaders, period — full stop. And to see senior elected officials polluting the results of a democratic election in this country in the name of Donald Trump is disgraceful. The entire premise of the president's argument is a farce. It is honestly beyond any capacity I have to articulate it.
And what this tragedy reveals, now, is that there are no moderate Republicans anymore. This is a fantasy. And it's gone. When you have the situation that we're in, which is the refusal to acknowledge the legitimacy of the election, there's no such thing as a moderate Republican. There cannot be. There are only Trumpists.
This is a personality cult, with a party platform established clearly at the Republican National Convention that requires obedience and loyalty. And all it took was Donald Trump Jr. to make a 2024 threat to get Republicans to fall into line.
Because ultimately, this is not a moment that requires courage; it's a moment that requires an acknowledgment of reality. Stuart Stevens, our friend and colleague, says courage is our heroic American soldiers getting out of their boats on D-Day, even when the soldier in front of them was shot down where they stood. People did that in this country's history to preserve our right to vote. What's happening now is shocking.
And what's worse, too many of these Trumpists kept their jobs. In the end, pain is the only teacher. Unfortunately, there wasn't much of a price to pay for most of these senators, other than being confronted with advertisements that showed who they really were. But 2022 will be here sooner than they think.
Like jellyfish in the ocean, Republicans are moving between a bad tide and a good tide. Their virtue may ultimately be amenable to the circumstances of their leader. But it seems to me that Republicans are already auditioning for 2024. This is going to be a very early presidential campaign. And the candidates who will be running will almost certainly be running as Trump candidates.
Covid-19 is going to define the Biden presidency in its first year. We're heading toward a long winter of death in this country, with diseases raging out of control. And Trump will do everything he can to resist cooperation during this vital transition period. This is an unmitigated disaster, and we're still trying to figure a way out.
I do think people are craving competent, decent government. And I also think that type of success will bend the politics towards the president-elect's favor.
But it's time to buckle in. This is going to be a long fight. Election Day was not an end, but a beginning.
Steve Schmidt, co-founder of The Lincoln Project and senior strategist for President George W. Bush
Piece of shit Lincoln project. What a farce. Peddling lies about hearsay that the president trash talked veterans? These people are evil.
Why post this sh*t?
“Think” and “Steve Schmidt” are a contradiction in terms.
“And by encouraging them, conservatives are injecting cyanide into the country’s polity.”
The only one needing an injection of cyanide is Steve Schmidt.
Isn’t Schmidt the stuff we would find in the hole in an outhouse?
https://novobrief.com/scytl-pere-valles-interview/3479/
Innovating democracy is no easy task, but that’s precisely the main objective of Barcelona-based Scytl. The electronic voting company, which was founded in 2001 by the late Andreu Riera, has transformed itself into a global leader of electoral solutions under the leadership of Pere Valles.
Valles joined in 2004 when the company was formed by 12 researches and, as its CEO, it has grown its business and staff to $64 million in revenue, $24 million in profit (2013 figures) and 600 people, respectively.
To know more about Scytl, which is planning to IPO on the Nasdaq in 2017, we recently sat down with Valles in the company’s offices in Barcelona for an hour-long conversation.
From democrat underground:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/12511828425
5.) But wait, it gets murkier: SCYTL is shadow owned by Pere Valles, a former CEO of Global Net; who just HAPPENS to have been a maximum level contributor to the Obama Campaign in 2008. Not surprisingly, Valles is also has contacts with
Media Matters, a communication consortium owned by: George Soros.
What is this idiot talking about. There are still plenty of RINO’s out there.
We're in a lot of trouble as a country because the democrats worked tirelessly to commit election fraud.
Know your enemy.
They’ve concluded they only need one party, the GOP was in the running until 2016 but it’s pretty much been decided now that it will be the Democrats.
Great question.
It’s not like we ever really do anything about it.
...We’re heading toward a long winter of death in this country, with diseases raging out of control..
And half the country believes this.
And half the country will accept that their man lost due to rampant cheating.
Except the other half fights with a reckless abandon and urgency.
And our side doesn’t.
We’re the “thinkers”
too much “thinking” instead of “doing” on a battlefield ends badly.
Philadelphia has been a nexus of vote fraud since at least 1860.
The post 2016 investigation of Detroit was stopped because it might show something happened.
NYC’s Tammany Hall was notoriously fraudulent for decades.
The US has a long and storied history of election fraud. Why should this year be any different?
And speaking of frauds, Schmidt has perpetrated same on a number of his clients.
Or on the bottom of your shoes if you went walking through a pasture without watching your step.
A lot (most?) of these consultant types are Republican for pay. They couldn’t get jobs as Democrats so play for Team GOP.
Agree. Made of a bunch of Trump hating swamp dwellers who are twisted in a knot because they’re no longer relevant and are desperate to regain power....
This is a perfect example of how anti-Trumpers think. They simply cannot present a reasoned and factual argument. Instead they immediately resort to terms like “dangerous” and “cyanide”.
Yeah, Trump Derangement Syndrome is real. The tragic part is how easily it infected these so-called Lincoln Project Republicans. I guess they pine for the Bush days, back when Islam meant “peace”, and starting wars was simple good fun.
Boy do they miss those “moderate” republicans, the ones that used to give democrats cover.
Democrats used to be able to pretend they weren’t extremists, because they could vote Nay on legislation because “moderate” republicans would vote Aye and give them cover.
Take the Senate for example. Who’s gone now? Arlen Specter, John McCain, John Warner, Chuck Hagel, Mike Dewine, George Voinovich, Jim Jeffords, Richard Lugar, Bob Bennett, Elizabeth Dole, William Roth, Orrin Hatch, Thad Cochrane, Olympia Snowe.
I’m sure I’ve forgotten some.
In the mean time, Chuck Schumer has populated the democrat caucus with the most vitriolic leftists possible.
And without “moderate republican” cover, their extremism is visable for all to see.
There aren’t any types like John McCain to join with the democrats in their craziness to make things look “bi-partisan”.
Too bad. So sad.
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