Lincoln Project's Steve Schmidt's Distorted Take on Democracy

Steve Schmidt, a founding member of the Lincoln Project, and the man who's so devoted to the Republican party he preferred to leave it and spend several millions of dollars towards helping the Democratic cause, all because, essentially, he truly hates Trump.  

Hence, this is sufficient reason for Schmidt to tell you all to shut up and accept the mainstream interpretation of events unless you want to be considered criminally seditious; according to Schmidt, 106 member of congress are nothing more than traitors and should be jailed... for exercising their legal rights through legal means within the United States' established legal structures? I know, right, heinous criminals, the lot of them. At least Schmidt was acting legally when he accused media of bias or signed amicus briefs to overturn legislation. If only those 106 traitors had acted legally... oh, wait. I'm getting confused.

And what do you call a man who refers to himself as a "jackfruit Republican" yet seeks to destroy what he claims to love simply because things weren't going the way he would have liked them to? A traitor or a petty, whiny a-hole?  

The Atlantic used to call him a bully and propagandist, and "a man who makes even Karl "Durable Majority" Rove look smart as they pondered whether anyone would hire him again. However, that same year, Time did print an Op-Ed piece stating that, as the "lord of outrage, [he] has a long and prosperous career ahead of him."

This is what Time's Michael Scherer had to say about Schmidt as the head of the McCain electoral campaign:

In the heat of a campaign, Schmidt understood that outrage could cut through the news clutter like a buzz saw. It didn't matter much if the outrage was fueled by fact — better if it was fueled by emotion, which would tweak the fury of his base, leading to exciting exchanges on cable television and fresh chatter around the watercooler

Just to be sure, here's what The New York Times, which he accused of severe reporting bias against McCain, had to say about him:

Mr. Schmidt is considered by members of both parties to have a superior sense of a greatly altered news media environment, caused by the proliferation of political Web sites and blogs, providing all different ways of getting out information. This new environment, he has told friends, is easily manipulated because of round-the-clock thirst for news, increased competition, lowered standards created by the proliferation of outlets and hunger for the outrageous.

This goes back to the years immediately following that period when Schmidt was more than OK with Bush Jr., Rice, Cheney et al. and could still be proud of the Republican party while it was peddling the WMD lies and had destroyed US reputation and trust throughout the globe. But he draws the line now all because it's "an entertainer in the White House"?

Let me wrap my brain around this: This guy acted as direct counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney, one of the most evil men in modern history, but's Trump's legal questioning of a very questionable election, it's this that he's personally invested in identifying as anti-American to the general public?  Why, because he's suddenly a changed man?

Could it be that he's just pissed off 'cause Trump pushed him out, seeing him as an untrustworthy swamp creature, and that Schmidt is now simply doing what he does best, playing with people's perceptions via the mainstream media and the trickle and trigger effect played out all over the Internet? I've a hard time not seeing a little of both: a traitor to his party and a petty, whiny a-hole?

Ironic that he should air his beef to Christiane Amanpour, CNN personality and host of Amanpour and Company on PBS, who is a superbly biased and smug liberal elitist that stopped doing anything resembling real journalism many moons ago, if ever; she'd sooner spit on Schmidt for any of his rightist past if he wasn't singing anti-Trump songs. Actually, no, the irony is the care he's currently getting from MSM, because what he sings pleases their narrative.

Back to Schmidt, if he doesn't like the way things are, he does possess the same rights every other citizen is told is theirs: Vote and/or run for office. He knows all about it, for he did call on Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez—a bartender/waitress who bravely decided to exercise her right to run for office—to team up with the Lincoln Project through "a lengthy and flowery plea" that emphasized her pre-political situation before all else to specify that it didn't matter at all,  i.e. being a "waitress".

That right there pretty much sums up the kind of fundamental contradiction that seems to ceaselessly plague what he says or does. 

Exploiting super PAC possibilities—which are far more anti-Democratic than Trump's legal actions if one aptly sees them in the same vein as lobbyists with unlimited funds—and setting up an entity with the sole intention of destroying a political party, spending lavishly on shock adverts that are pure propaganda because they dislike the politics of one man, doesn't appear perversely twisted to you? 

The Lincoln Project is contributing nothing positive; even if one supports any actions to tear down Trump, all they're doing is making the political landscape far murkier than it already was. But it suits all because it's anything goes if and only if it can get Trump out of office since, without ever bothering to look at raw sources and facts, you're convinced he's a Nazi in league with the Russians. And why would MSM and the Internet betray you in any way? How dare I, right?

I had expected that they would have announced themselves as a new party, whereby they could have reaped equal damage on Trump while positively widening options and the discourse. There was no better timing to allow for a certain type of entity to hit the ground as something far more significant than a fringe independent group with next-to-no showing. Am I wrong in saying that never before have so many craved more political options? The impression I got was that the number of "anti-Other" votes were more significant than "pro-Whatever" ones. 

A big problem, states Schmidt, is that the current structures make it possible for "someone like Tucker Carlson to be elected president. And no one should want that." 

So, when all's said and done, Schmidt only sees a democracy when all's in agreement with his world view?  Can you blame him? Look how confident he is that he knows better than 74 million voters regarding the who and why someone should even qualify as a candidate. 

And, imagine, if he becomes a full-fledged Democrat, he'll now have the MSM at his disposal, which ought to simplify manipulation for him, and give him more time for his hobbies.  

As an aside: Are we to understand that Schmidt has a smart fridge, which he used to record this interview? Everything seems odd about that guy. Was he afraid to show us his study or living room, for I assume somehow, though I may be wrong, that most of his walls are covered with dead animal trophies, an aspect that rarely goes over well with the Left?

Also, those 50% tips, were those with taxpayers' money???