24: The Disguise of Nomenclature
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🗓️ 26 April 2021
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Host Reed Galen is joined by fellow Lincoln Project Co-Founders Steve Schmidt and Rick Wilson to discuss the euphemisms used to disguise the true intentions/agenda of the Republican Party, the very realistic threat of the GOP regaining control of the House, and the importance of planning for the 2022 midterm elections now rather than later.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Gaillin. Today I'm joined by |
| 0:13.1 | my fellow co-founder, host of LP TVs The Breakdown, an author of Everything Trump Touches |
| 0:18.4 | Dies, Rick Wilson. Rick, thanks for joining me. Hey Reed, how are you, man? And back by |
| 0:23.8 | popular demand, my other co-founder of the Lincoln Project Steve Schmidt. Steve, welcome |
| 0:29.6 | back to the show. Hey Reed. So guys, I want to talk a little bit about what we're seeing |
| 0:34.3 | within the Republican Party. And Steve, I know you've got a lot of thoughts on this, so |
| 0:37.6 | I want to open it up with you. So for time immemorial, they have always been fissures within |
| 0:43.0 | political movements, coalitions, parties, whatever the case might be. Because parties are ultimately |
| 0:48.6 | an amalgam of different groups who all live together in somewhat harmony because they |
| 0:54.6 | can't live separately and have any sort of success. For a long time in the Republican |
| 0:58.6 | Party, it was the National Security Hawks, the social conservatives, and that sort of small |
| 1:04.4 | limited government individual liberty business types. And that was a coalition that ran for |
| 1:10.4 | a long time within the Republican Party. But now what we're seeing is that those fissures |
| 1:14.8 | have nothing to do with ideology because the party espouses no ideology other than power |
| 1:20.2 | at this point. And is now reduced itself to just fighting over power and money and in |
| 1:26.2 | the flywheel of today's GOP, those things lead directly to one another. So Steve, just |
| 1:31.6 | walk us through briefly if you wouldn't mind how you see the junctures here of the competing |
| 1:37.8 | wings of the party, whether or not that's McConnell and Trump as we've talked about recently, |
| 1:42.3 | or the other factions that are living together in frankly disharmony at this point. |
| 1:47.6 | Well, let's start out with what I think is the most obvious, but there's something that |
| 1:52.9 | I'm just shocked that there seems to be a debate over. And it's whether Donald Trump is |
| 1:58.1 | a figure of the past, or Donald Trump remains a figure of the present and likely to be |
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