Jacob Ogles
An ominous video from The Lincoln Project predicts mass chaos and arrests of Democratic Governors if Donald Trump wins the presidency.
The four-minute “Aftermath” video compiles the most controversial elements of Project 2025 — a blueprint for the Trump administration made by the Heritage Foundation to implement a lasting right-wing agenda — with the consequences of recent Supreme Court decisions.
The video imagines a dispirited and divided Democratic campaign falling to Trump’s rhetoric, displaying pictures of Trump’s 2017 inauguration as a reminder the GOP leader has won before. “Unfortunately, he keeps his promises,” a narrator says.
The video describes women having menstrual cycles tracked by government and arrested for seeking out-of-state abortions, an expanded Supreme Court of lackeys declaring crimes by the President as “official acts” but insubordination by blue state leaders as crimes, and the withdrawal of the U.S. from NATO leading to the assassination of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The Lincoln Project, formed by former Republican campaign operatives, for years has produced hard-hitting anti-Trump ads.
This ad was released as President Joe Biden resists Democratic pressure to step aside as his party’s 2024 nominee. But officials with The Lincoln Project said they will keep their focus where it has long remained: spotlighting Trump’s authoritarian policies and practices.
“This election has always been a referendum on Trump and his intentions to pursue an anti-democracy agenda,” reads an email from Emily Quartz, deputy press secretary for The Lincoln Project. “The Lincoln Project is staying on mission by making sure voters know what is truly at stake if Trump wins and that beating Trump is the only thing that matters.”
The ad lays out many directives from the Project 2025 agenda, including replacing more than 50,000 civil servants with “hard-line MAGA loyalists.”
“The federal oath of office now requires declaring loyalty to the President, not the Constitution,” a narrator states.
It then predicts Trump will order the arrest of members of the House’s Jan. 6 Commission — a group that notably includes former U.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy, an Orlando Democrat — and former political opponents for “treason, election interference and conspiracy.” Meanwhile, the ad predicts Trump will pardon — and in some cases hire — rioters who stormed the Capitol and award them a presidential medal.
Another apparent veiled reference to a Florida figure? It predicts Trump will appoint a “disgraced ex-General” as his Secretary of Defense who will fire over 400 career military Generals and Admirals, “leaving the military leaderless.” That description could describe Michael Flynn, a former Trump National Security Advisor who now lives in Venice and has been a regular speaker at QAnon gatherings advocating for military coups.
On the abortion front, the ad predicts that the Department of Health and Human Services, with an assist from a U.S. House lead by Republican Speaker Mike Johnson, will outlaw abortion-inducing drugs like Mifepristone, and prevent women from leaving states that limit abortion (like Florida) for the purposes of obtaining abortions where the practice is legal.
Some of its most foreboding predictions involve immigration policy, anticipating Trump will end birthright citizenship and immediately make many U.S.-born citizens undocumented, then rounding individuals up in camps before deporting them to other nations.
Finally, it predicts that Trump, based on false claims that the 2020 election was rigged, will set himself up to run for a third term in 2028.
“If you hear all this and believe it isn’t possible,” the narrator closes, “then ask yourself, what did you believe was impossible just eight years ago?”
17 comments
My Take
July 8, 2024 at 3:11 pm
beating Trump is the only thing that matters.
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My Take
July 8, 2024 at 3:24 pm
Trump’s 2025 = Fascist Purgatory.
Not full-out Hell. No dearth camps of course.
But very painful and for a long time.
My Take
July 8, 2024 at 3:54 pm
Dearth, probably.
But not death.
25 Joe
July 8, 2024 at 4:14 pm
Again My Take with the bogus fascism BS. Now the attacks from the zombie force will be more intense after the King Joe debacle. The coverup for years should be investigated. Now how much of the news can we really believe from the zombie networks like CNN, MSNBC and such?
rick whitaker
July 8, 2024 at 9:09 pm
25 joe, another nut job huh? what cracks do you people crawl out of? f u putin.
My Take
July 8, 2024 at 4:26 pm
Trump’s Term Two is planned as FASCISM.
We delight that at least the historical term is still repellent.
We l(the US) have long used the term “authoritarian” for the foreign fascists we found useful or even liked.
But they were mostly still fascists.
Now the GOP wants to hide Trump and their plans as “authoritarian” at worst.
But they are still fascists.
25 Joe
July 8, 2024 at 5:28 pm
Speaking of hiding, that’s what the zombie press and zombie handlers have been doing for King Biden’s entire reign. With regards to your fascism fantasy, are you seven aware of the form of government we have in the United States?
Michael K
July 8, 2024 at 5:36 pm
Yet another screen name. Paid in rubles?
Best to ignore this troll bot in all her forms and names.
25 Joe
July 8, 2024 at 5:44 pm
There he is my nepotism friend. 25 symbolizes the amendment it will take to remove King Biden from the throne. You guys certainly love to dish it out but you run to momma when it is tossed back your way.
My Take
July 8, 2024 at 4:51 pm
America as MAGAville, mega-Pottersville.
Michael K
July 8, 2024 at 5:34 pm
Wow. Far fetched? Not really. Project 2025 is a call for a revolution. Read David Brooks disturbing interview with Steve Bannon (former Trump administration official currently in jail).
Glad to see the Lincoln Project staying on and focused.
My Take
July 8, 2024 at 9:00 pm
Stay focused on TRUMP’s FASCISM !
My Take
July 9, 2024 at 12:20 am
MSNBC
“MAGA extremist agenda is a ‘fascist fever dream’ — and Trump claims he has never heard of it”
Impeach Biden
July 9, 2024 at 2:17 pm
MSNBC? I am LMFAO. One of the main culprits in the Biden health coverup. I don’t believe anything that state run media garbage says. That is not a news organization. It is zombie propaganda.
E.W. Modemac
July 9, 2024 at 10:59 am
And two weeks ago, the Supreme Court of the United States said yes, this can happen. Thanks, Supreme Court.
My Take
July 9, 2024 at 3:26 pm
Maybe Trump’s version could be called “Fatcism.”
Glance at him and much of MAGA.
The tubby Teabaggers just changed names.
Chuck
July 13, 2024 at 11:01 am
I’d like to see more direct and hard hitting ads against Trump from you guys. While your ads resonate with Dems and intelligence you’re going to need messaging that slaps these ignorant MAGA supporters in the face. Time to get really nasty or say goodbye to our democracy.
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