Lincoln Project’s Latest Ad Targeting Govs. Abbott and DeSantis Hits A Home-Run … With Their Leftist Fan Base
The thoroughly disgraced Lincoln Project found its niche providing fear-mongering hysteria to their gullible, ill-informed leftist audience and to their leftist donors who apparently were delusional enough to think Lincoln Project bile and actual misinformation would impact Republican voters.
It didn’t, at least not as they hoped. Indeed, one peeved progressive accurately noted after the 2020 presidential election: “Lincoln Project managed to help Trump get MORE Republican support than in 2016 apparently.”
Yep. But still, these same progressives and Democrats are still sending their money to the Lincoln Project. I think that they just like the idea that these failed former Republican operatives and self-important minor pundits are on their side, ripping into the GOP and crybullying for the Bernie- and AOC-inspired Biden socialist agenda.
It is for this latter reason, even more than for their TDS-inspired lunacy, that the Lincoln Project is completely inept at reaching any Republican voters. They aren’t even trying to reach them, though, so it’s no surprise that they put out trash ads like this one targeting Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis:
Obviously, this is not an ad geared to any but their own donors and anti-Republican voters who already loathe the Republican governors. This ad is not about changing minds, it’s about whipping their leftist base into a frenzy . . . and getting more donations.
How else will they keep the panic porn flowing for their leftist audience?
The Lincoln Project ad, which targeted the Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over their recent stances opposing mask mandates, has been mocked as an exaggeration of the threat COVID-19 poses to children and a political ploy to raise money for the political group.. . . . Twitter users were quick to mock the video, including Journalist Glenn Greenwald who said “only psychopaths would produce” such an advertisement and criticized the political project for telling people how to keep children safe when its own co-founder has been accused of multiple allegations of sexual misconduct against minors.
You may recall that Greenwald is a liberal, and he is appalled by the rank red meat the Lincoln Project is tossing to the leftist base. Here’s Greenwald’s tweet:
He had more to say:
The Daily Caller continues:
The Washington Examiner’s Seth Mandel called the advertisement, “psychotic even for the Lincoln Project” and criticized the group’s claim that they wanted to protect children.Writer Drew Holden also criticized the Lincoln project’s history of “endangering children.”
The Lincoln Project’s perpetually outraged, hate-filled leftist fan base loves the ad.
They don’t understand the right, and so of course, they think this repulsive, disingenuous, anti-science ad is “hard-hitting” and sure to change minds.
It won’t change a single mind and—significantly—is not intended to do so.
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