The Lincoln Project is a group of current and former Republicans that have set their sights on getting Donald Trump out of office. On Monday, one of the group’s founders revealed that they also plan on taking down the GOP even after Trump is out of office.
In an interview with the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent, Jeff Weaver said he is personally seeking “atonement” for some of the Republicans he once helped into office and that the group is making plans to eliminate all traces of Trumpism once the president is gone.
According to Weaver, the group has no plans to disband should Trump go down to defeat in November.
With Sargent writing, “The Lincoln Project’s declared mission is ‘defeating Trump and Trumpism at the ballot box.’ That includes a pledge to elect Democrats over Republicans who, like Trump, do not ‘support the Constitution,”
Asked whether “the Lincoln Project is breaking permanently with the GOP embrace of voter suppression, gerrymandering and other anti-democratic tactics,” Weaver said absolutely, adding they are committed to ensuring the “drive-by Jim Crowism in many parts of the country is put to an end.”
Pressed whether the Lincoln Project will run “ads attacking President Biden for raising taxes on oil companies in early 2021,” Weaver said ‘no.’
“We’re not gonna do that,” he explained. “He [Biden] will have a mandate to clean up the mess that Trump has created with the help of his enablers. That shouldn’t be held up. We intend to do all we can to make sure that doesn’t happen.”
“Indeed, in Weaver’s telling, binding the ‘wounds’ of Trump, as the group’s mission puts it, includes working against Republicans who try to prevent Biden from addressing our deep crises, particularly among Trumpist Republicans such as Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) who use this to position themselves for 2024,” Sargent wrote, adding that Weaver told him, “
“We will not stand on the sidelines if an attempt to bind the wounds is held up. We plan on participating in that debate.”
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