No, The Lincoln Project Does Not Pay Me Royalties

Senate Republicans, you're either pro-democracy or pro-Trump.

You can't be both.

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) January 28, 2021

And why should they? 

Sure, I wrote this exact thing almost exactly 15 years ago today:

Because in the Dubya Era a person can be a Good American, or a Good Republican, but they can no longer be both.

And over the following decade and a half I wrote it again...

Because in the Dubya Era a person can be a Good American, or a Good Republican, but they can no longer be both.

...and again ...

...and again...

...and again...

Because after five years in the Age of Dubya, you get to be either a Good Republican or a Good American, but you can no longer be both. 

...and again...

Everything else, however “true” it may be, is nothing but interesting architectural ornamentation on the brutal reality that, in the Age of Dubya, you can either be a Good American or a Good Republican, but you can no longer be both. 

...and again...

And so what was true in the Age of Bush is still tragically true today:
In these times you can either be a Good American.
Or you can be a Good Republican.
But you can no longer be both.

...and again...

As I have been writing for years, 

we have come to the place

where one can either be a Good American 

or a Good Republican, 

but one can no longer be both.

These are their troops: 

 

And this is their Generalissimo

...and hey looky!  Here's one I literally titled, 

"You Can Be A Good American, Or You Can Be A Good Republican" (But you can no longer be both.)

Over the years I've probably incorporated this sentiment into hundreds of posts, but of course this was mostly during the Before Time, back when saying such things definitely did not get you hours of free, flattering air time on cable teevee every day, or book deals, or writing gigs at respectable publications, or tens of millions pouring in from wealthy Liberals who wanted to fund my plucky, noble, uphill struggled to save our democracy from a depraved Republican Party.

It was, in fact, a time when people like the Lincoln Lads bent their considerable efforts toward making absolute pariahs of us mouthy America-hating, terrorist-loving Libtards for even suggesting such things.

But as we all know there are New Rules now, and since these things were all written by a mouthy Liberal during the Before Time, technically they no longer exist at all.

So why should the Lincoln Lads feel obliged to acknowledge an unperson like me?

No Half Measures