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queentonic

(243 posts)
Fri May 29, 2020, 02:09 PM May 2020

The Lincoln Party

It is my suspicion that Rick Wilson, Steve Schmidt et al are toying with the idea of creating a new party with the possible name of The Lincoln Party. It is because of the Lincoln Project that tells me this. It's only a hunch, but considering how much the Republican Party has devolved into the Trump Party, I can see the Republicans going the way of the Whigs. Your thoughts.

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brooklynite

(93,851 posts)
1. Building a VIABLE new Party is next to impossible...
Fri May 29, 2020, 02:11 PM
May 2020

(see: Green Party)

Their primary goal is to win back the Republican Party after the Trumpists cash and burn.

SWBTATTReg

(21,859 posts)
2. The 'Tea Party' too. It fell apart too when it was taken over by radical right wingers
Fri May 29, 2020, 02:20 PM
May 2020

with their absurd beliefs, no government, no taxes etc. nonsense. IMHO, kind of a morphed Libertarian party.

And the republican party absorbed a lot of these characters into their fold when the Tea Party candidates failed miserably to gain any significant footholds in following elections. They cast their eyes about and saw rump, and propelled him to heights no one thought would happen (and the guts of the republican party was torn apart as a result...they are still trying to recover themselves by splintering off and trying to reestablish the 'original' republican party. Maybe they'll succeed, when the hatred of rump and his idiotic beliefs finally become too much for even these diehard republicans and Tea partiers.

Midnightwalk

(3,131 posts)
3. It is but the republican party has become toxic
Fri May 29, 2020, 02:20 PM
May 2020

Has been for quite a while, but I don’t see how anyone runs as a moderate republican when the party has sold out the country for trump.

Ok I admit I can’t see being a republican under any circumstance but that’s not the point.

It might be a better strategy to rebrand under a different name than to try to rehabilitate the label republican. Especially if democratic candidates brand them all as having supported trump. Republicans refused to hold him accountable and cannot be trusted.

SoonerPride

(12,286 posts)
5. I think re-branding is a good idea for them.
Fri May 29, 2020, 02:24 PM
May 2020

I think the Rs get wiped out in 2020 and calling oneself a republican in upcoming elections will be a stain of dishonor.

Bev54

(9,961 posts)
8. I have always felt all the never trumpers
Fri May 29, 2020, 03:18 PM
May 2020

were either going to form a new republican party or are waiting to raise the existing party from the ashes and that includes repubs like Jeff Flake. I think originally they thought if they could just get rid of Trump, they could get the old party back but now realize the whole party must be burned to the ground and built from the floor up. They still fail to take their own responsibility for the party being where it is today.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
9. We can be sure there will be a big conservative party in future,
Fri May 29, 2020, 03:32 PM
May 2020

whatever the name. Roughly half this nation is wired conservative by nature, then influenced by culture toward strong or moderate (or even extremist as today), and they're not going anywhere.

I hope it's not called the Lincoln Party because it's wildly inappropriate. Lincoln took various positions that are considered conservative today, but he wasn't conservative. Inevitably conservatives would corrupt respect and understanding of who he was to suit themselves and disgrace his name. So unfortunate that there is not one great American conservative leader to model themselves on.

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