see url:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/01/lincoln-project-donald-trump-republicans-campaign-ads
The short answer is...No... But they are very clever nasty ads aimed at
undermining him and his campaign, and have caused him to have a
rethink. If you folks out there have any url's on the Presidential
election which you find poignant, funny or clever, or banal even, and
entertaining; then you can either send them to me privately, or put them
on the mailing list so we can all have a look. After all, we are all
about Active Measures...aren't we...those communication skills which are
all about deception, misinformation, undermining, exposing subversion,
all those dirty little tricks which make our world so interesting...and
frustrating...and makes us shout at the television...Just think...if
everyone in the world was honest as the day is long...where would we
be...I should think that Heaven gets pretty boring after a while in
infinity...far better to be in Hell...methinks...;-)
Just a few thoughts...
ATB
Dougie.
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Savage attack ads from a well-funded group of dissident Republicans are
aiming to sway a key sliver of opinion in swing states.
Amid all the noise of an election involving Donald Trump – all the
inflammatory tweets and shadowy Facebook posts – one set of ads has
somehow managed to break through.
'I failed my fellow Americans': the white women defecting from Trump
There’s the one of the US president shuffling down a ramp that declares
that the president “is not well”. There’s the whispering one about
Trump’s “loyalty problem” inside his White House, campaign and family.
There’s the epic Mourning in America that remakes Reagan’s
election-defining 1984 ad, turning the sun-bathed suburbs into a dark
national portrait of pandemic and recession. On Twitter, YouTube and
Facebook, those three ads alone have racked up more than 35m views.
The Lincoln Project, run by a group of renegade Republican political
consultants, has crystallized one of the core narratives of the 2020
campaign in ways that few other political commercials have in past cycles.
Its work on brutal attack ads sits alongside the swift boat veterans
against John Kerry in 2004, the Willie Horton ad against Michael Dukakis
in 1988, and the daisy ad against Barry Goldwater in 1964.
Their reward? Disdain from independent media, distrust across the
political spectrum and a recent series of harshly negative coverage from
pro-Trump media outlets.
Disdain appears to be the consensus view from the pundits. Atlantic
magazine called their ads “personally abusive, overwrought, pointlessly
salacious, and trip-wired with non sequiturs”. The New Republic examined
what it called “the viral impotency” of the Lincoln Project, suggesting
they couldn’t “persuade voters of anything”. Even the Washington Post
declared most of their ads were “aimed not at persuading disaffected
Republicans but simply at needling the president”.
But that’s not how the project’s leaders see their work or purpose. In
their launch manifesto, published as a column in the New York Times, the
founders said their goal was “defeating President Trump and Trumpism at
the ballot box”, including his Republican supporters in Congress.
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