the headline we all need right now

[solarbird]

Via The Daily Beast:

Trumpists, Here Are Your Terms of Surrender. Also, Fuck You.

I can hardly even describe how much this is the headline I needed right now.

Quoting Wil Wheaton first, because he's right:

Rick Wilson is not a good person. He helped pave the road that sara palin, trump, josh hawley, ted cruz, and the most odious of right wing lunatics walked down to get into government.

I applaud his come-to-jesus moment so long ago, and I applaud the Lincoln Project for everything it did and will do to excise this cancer from our lives, and holy crap to I love it when he takes the people he indirectly enabled to the woodshed.

And now, some excerpts.

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Trumpists, Here Are Your Terms of Surrender. Also, Fuck You.

There’s no repairing the damage he’s done until you confess to the normalization and rationalizations that let him bring us to the edge of a conspiracy-driven insurrection.

by Rick Wilson, Editor-at-Large - Jan. 19, 2021

Donald Trump is a war leader who failed. Before he was the leader of a failed insurrection, he was a man who’d stoked the violent and unstable tendencies of his most fanatic supporters into a hot flame that came dangerously close to incinerating the Republic.

It’s time for Donald Trump and his allies to surrender unconditionally, permanently, and without another goddamn word about a “stolen” election.

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This brings me to today’s Republican Party, its alleged leaders, and all of you who are still standing with Trump as the least popular departing president in American history continues fighting his lost war.

Whether you know it or not, you’ve lost. On Nov. 3 and again when your allies assaulted cops, killing one, on Jan. 6. America’s reaction wasn’t “Fuck YEAH, Trump 2020!” It was horror. Think of the furious response as the Doolittle Raid: an unmistakable signal that America is done with your Trumpian shit.

Since you lost, you’ve done your damndest to ensure Donald Trump gains a second term through lies, conspiratorial agitprop, clownish legal chest-beating (with a 1-60 record so far), and an all-out effort to disenfranchise tens of millions of African American voters. Your new Jim Crow movement to tell Black voters they still don’t count is going swimmingly. And by “swimmingly” I mean it’s a fucking disaster. You lost two Senate seats in Georgia. GEORGIA.

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There will be no negotiation with the vandals, murderers, Karens and Qarens, Q-hadi wanna-be terrorists, swag-bellied revolutionaries in their too-tight LBVs and helmets, fanatic dead-enders and oddly-clad randos who stormed the Capitol after Trump and his allies poured gasoline and lit the match.

Comments

[minoanmiss]

I felt my blood pressure go down and the corners of my mouth draw up on reading that headline.

[solarbird]

I know, right? Just... ahhhhhhh.

[vostoklake]

Rick Wilson is Joe Stalin, realising when the Wehrmacht had swarmed over his borders that encouraging the Nazi menace had backfired.

Or possibly Admiral Darlan, or Marshal Badoglio:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Darlan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_Badoglio

[jessie_c]

Let us not forget that, apart from opposing Trump, the Lincoln Project is still made up of Republicans who believe that people do not deserve to eat, that poor people deserve to be poor, that LGBT people deserve to be discriminated against and that brown people deserve to shut up and let their 'betters' decide their lives for them. Oh, and to be executed by cops for living while black.

[solarbird]

Quoting Wheaton up there wasn't enough to let you know I get that?

Y'know who else were absolute motherfuckers? Churchill and De Gaulle. But when Hitler's on the other side of the line, I'll work with 'em, and be glad they're there.

[jessie_c]

Just wanted to get that out in the open every single chance I can. Maxim 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.

Possibly they can oppose Trumpism. But equally possibly they cannot, because Trump is not a symptom; he's the inevitable end product of 50 years of Republican strategy. And I know that you know this, too.