Lincoln Project Predators Exposed
LINCOLN PROJECT PREDATORS, DETRUMPIFICATION & CUOMO FALLS. Red Ice’s Henrik and Lana cover some of the latest news in Flashback Friday.
It is a new day in the Democratic Party.
âAlex Johnson was a senior at the University of Texas at Austin, pursuing a career in politics, when he first heard from John Weaver, the legendary Republican operative living nearby. It started with a direct message on Twitter. âI just didnât really think anything of it at first,â Johnson told Intelligencer. âBut then, you know, his intentions became clear.â
Weaver, who worked on both of Senator John McCainâs presidential campaigns, started by discussing politics or college football before asking Johnson about his dating life and sexual interests. âYou interested in getting together? working together? etc?âŠ,â Weaver wrote in December 2018, according to a message Johnson shared with Intelligencer. âI want to see you,â Weaver wrote four days later.
The pattern continued into 2020, when Weaver reached out to Johnson about working for a new political-action committee he had co-founded: the Lincoln Project.
Weaver started the group with some of the biggest names in Republican politics to defeat Donald Trump. Joining him was Steve Schmidt, a Karl Rove protĂ©gĂ© during George W. Bushâs reelection campaign, known for his no-holds-barred style of attack, who later worked on McCainâs 2008 campaign. Joining them was another McCain veteran, Reed Galen, and the Republican strategist Rick Wilson. Other co-founders included the Republican super-lawyer George Conway, husband of Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, as well as veteran Republican political operatives Mike Madrid, Ron Steslow, and Jennifer Horn.
It didnât take long for the Lincoln Project to become a haven for âNever Trumpâ Republicans âŠ
Johnson said he rarely answered Weaverâs calls after that, but despite his discomfort with the Lincoln Projectâs co-founder, he took the internship there and started in July 2020, working remotely from his home in Texas. âThis was a big opportunity in my view to make a difference in the political world,â Johnson said. âAnd so I was pretty quick to say âyes.ââ
Weaver continued harassing Johnson at the Lincoln Project: âAre you top, bottom, versa?â he wrote in one message shortly after Johnson started.
âHis messages never stopped,â Johnson said. âAnd I would play along, just to be nice. Because I knew, I mean, heâs important. Like he has the strings. And we operate in the same kind of political culture of being âNever Trumpers.â
In the fall, Weaver reemerged. The Lincoln Project said Weaver âproposed a large scale operationâ that it rejected, which former employees said was a plan to flip Texas for Joe Biden. âŠâ
This is Morris Dees level stuff.
The neoliberal elites who have been running the show in America for the last 50 years are increasingly concentrated behind Joe in the Democratic Party. The Republican establishment is on the verge of giving up the ghost as its wealthy suburban voters migrate to the Democrats. There is a power shift going on post-Blumpf within the Republican Party from the libertarian wing to the growing populist wing.