but in the stand your ground case that now we are all very well aware of, i think it goes back to what we spoke about earlier. and that is the pressure. guess what? if people started to make phone calls and putting the pressure on, it would be different. and then that would help encourage you as a legislator help encourage law enforcement to speak out. because now they are not alone. as long as you re going behind and whispering and say hey, i m with you. but, you know, what? every day we are losing eight kids and teenagers a day daily to gun violence to eight kids a day. i think is still pricing to legislation of gun violence. i have been at numerous protests and i ve seen, i have seen pro-life supporters holding up a 16 by 20 or even large posters of fetuses and mothers have been impacted by abortion. and again, i m in the business of pictures. i m in the business of narrative. i m in the business of storytelling. and it still stuns me why, i
establishment republicans. tea party republicans were, however, favorable towards mitt romney, a 77. paul ryan, a 79. ann romney, 77. even george w. bush, 72. more favorable even than the establishment republicans. so this is consistent with the last paper that said, you know, as we got when they really had a rally behind their candidate, the feeling thermometer questions indicate that perhaps they did that. so whether those divisions are going to persist is when we looked add the media question. so i m going to turn that over to jay morris. well, it s clear that there s a division on several issue positions and on how tea party versus establishment republicans view, um, certain candidates, certain issues. do they get their news from different sources, we already know through the research on partisan media that democrats, republicans, liberals, conservatives, get their news from very different sources in today s fragmented media environment. when you look here just at tea
Heather Digby Parton took a look at some data from Alan I. Abramowitz, Ronald Rapoport, and Walter Stone about Trump supporters and reached a conclusion that has seemed obvious for a while now. Parton zeros in on the fact that these voters display an embrace of nativism, authoritarianism and economic populism. She adds nationalistic militarism…
The Lincoln Project imploded, and burned liberals who backed its anti-Trump viral videos
The Lincoln Project drew a lot of liberals thanks to its social media tactics. Now scandals are poised to take the group down.
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From the day The Lincoln Project launched in late 2019 as a group of high-profile Republicans determined to take down then-President Donald Trump, the super PAC positioned itself as a moral authority on the fate of the country. As Americans, we must stem the damage he and his followers are doing to the rule of law, the Constitution and the American character, the project s co-founders wrote in a