Never Trumpers are Democrats in Republican Clothing

Henry Olsen The Washington Post July 15, 2020

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The Lincoln Project has quickly established itself as the political arm of the “Never Trump” Republicans. It has also shown in word and in deed what many loyal Republicans have always suspected: They’re Democrats in Republican clothing.

The year’s Senate races offer a fresh indication of their real motives. The project’s newest television ad names 15 Republican senators whom voters should oppose, including 13 up for reelection. Their sin? Backing Trump on matters such as impeachment. The fact that nearly all Republican voters both approve of Trump’s job performance and opposed impeachment doesn’t seem to matter to those who claim to represent true Republican values.

Nor does what these senators vote for in the Senate seem to matter, either. These men and women have voted to confirm hundreds of conservative judges, once known as a core Republican value. They voted for a standard Republican supply-side tax cut, another core GOP belief. Apparently voting for Republican ideas and backing a Republican president no longer qualifies one as a good Republican in the Lincoln Project’s eyes.

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Never Trumpers are Democrats in Republican Clothing

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