The Lincoln Cancel Project
The anti-Trump group is creating a blacklist of anyone who ever worked in the Trump administration.
Not satisfied with President Donald Trump’s election defeat, the supposed “Republican” Never-Trumpers at The Lincoln Project are now working to compile and publicize a list of individuals who work in the Trump administration. The motive appears to be a political vendetta.
As Lincoln Project senior adviser Stuart Stevens stated when announcing the action, “We are constructing a database of Trump officials & staff that will detail their roles in the Trump administration & track where they are now. No personal info, only professional. But they will be held accountable & not allowed to pretend they were not involved.”
Clearly, the aim of The Lincoln Project is to vilify not only Donald Trump but anyone who dared to work on the political agenda of making America great. As The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board notes, “The only reason for an anti-Trump group to publicize the employment information of former officials is to deter employers from hiring them. If they are hired, progressive employees could scour the list and create petitions for them to be fired or doxed. This will deepen America’s civic strife.”
That’s putting it mildly.
No American president and no administration is ever 100% evil or 100% wrong. While political disagreements are genuine and serious, to paint all political opponents as pure villains that must be eradicated from society after serving in government will only lead to greater division and anger.
Magnanimity in victory and grace in defeat are what lead to national unity, not baseless and hyperbolic demonization. But leftists are both sore losers and winners.
Update: Speaking of cancelation, Lincoln Project cofounder John Weaver is missing. From the group’s website, that is. The Washington Free Beacon reports that he’s “accused of ‘grooming’ dozens of young men for sex.”
Weaver quickly played the gay card, as if that will save him. “The truth is that I’m gay,” he said. “And that I have a wife and two kids who I love. My inability to reconcile those two truths has led to this agonizing place.”
