Stuart Stevens Continues To Disappoint

I had such, well, not "high" hopes exactly, but "slightly elevated" hopes for Mr. "It Was All A Lie".  Of all the Never Trumpers who have been gifted millions of dollars in free promotion by the mainstream press for calling Trump a shithead, Steven came the closest to telling the blunt, ugly truth about his Republican Party's decades-long, depraved joyride that led them to the dark and terrible place they are now.

But now Mr. Stevens -- who I choose to believe damn well knows better -- would have you believe that the entire political universe must reduced to a simple, stupid binary.  According to Mr. Stevens, in the long, twilight struggle of Good versus Evil, of  Democracy versus Tyranny, there are two and only two alternatives:  Donald Trump or The Lincoln Project.  

Period.

You know who would be the happiest man in the world if he knew he’d never have to deal with @ProjectLincoln again? Donald Trump. Pick a side. I’m with @ProjectLincoln.

— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) February 16, 2021

Now where have I heard this exact kind weaselly prevarication from a Republican before?

Oh yeah.  I remember now:

How'd that work out?

Once again the same old lesson.  Never pin any hopes, no matter how slight those hopes may be, on any Republican ever really reforming.  Once in a blue moon one may be blown off their high horse on the way to Damascus and genuinely see the error of their ways, but those rare cases are the Element 118 of politics.  From the Encyclopedia Britannica:

Oganesson (Og), a transuranium element that occupies position 118 in the periodic table and is one of the noble gases. Oganesson is a synthetic element, and in 1999 scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, announced the production of atoms of oganesson as a result of the bombardment of lead-208 with atoms of krypton-86. However, in 2002 this result was retracted after it was discovered that some of the data had been falsified. In 2006 scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research at Dubna, Russia, announced that oganesson had been made in 2002 and 2005 in a cyclotron by the nuclear reaction of calcium-48 at an energy of 245 million electron volts (MeV) with a californium-249 target, with three neutrons and one atom of oganesson as the reaction products. Nearly a millisecond after creation, the oganesson nucleus decays into another transuranium element, livermorium, by emitting an alpha particle (helium nucleus). No physical or chemical properties of oganesson can be directly determined, since only a few atoms of oganesson have been produced...

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