Correction

By no stretch of the imagination has the Lincoln Project ever been the "foremost pro-democracy organization in the United States".  And if Rick Wilson was ever a "principled Republican" for three days straight I'll eat my hat.  

The foremost pro-democracy organization in the United States belongs to the Democratic Party, of which I have been a member my entire adult life. 

The Lincoln Project is an advertising company staffed by mountebanks which cranked out slick, Trump-bashing ads that tickled the pleasure centers of way too many credulous Liberals and made the lads and lasses at MSNBC swoon back in the day.  

However, as I wrote all the way back in November of 2021in "The Fail-Safe Election"  -- 

...there should be one fact that stands out bold and clear to anyone who has eyes to see: that the staggering amount of free publicity and hard cash lavished on the Lincoln Project on the theory that their unique insights into the Republican mind would pay big dividends for the Democrats was a complete bust.  That, outside of the tiny circle of Never Trump Republicans who seem to exist almost entirely on teevee and Twitter -- surprise! -- neither the tens of millions of dollars that credulous Liberals poured into the Lincoln Project...

...nor the Liberal Political PornHub videos they cranked out budged even a fraction of the Republican base one inch...

And yet you will remember that so many of our fair-weather Liberals allies insisted that the Lincoln Lads basically won the 2020 election for Joe Biden despite incontestable evidence to the contrary.  

If you needed a bylined writer to tell you bitter truths, you could've heeded the wise words Charlie Pierce:

The Lincoln Project Didn't Move 10 Votes in This Election

Never Trump conservatives are about as relevant to the actual election results this year as are the Whigs or the Free Soil Party.

Or you could've read The Hill, although it's kind of a trash publication so I can understand why you might blow them off -- 

Lack of influence means it's time to dismiss the Lincoln Project

-- but the basic electoral math that they buried halfway down the column is not in dispute.

During their time in the sun they even scammed their way into a glow-up from 60 Minutes, back when that meant something.  Later, when the various scandals the Lincoln Lads were drowning in broke into the open, 60 Minutes had to, uh, revise their assessment.

But these veteran grifters hung on like herpes because, as America's most famous capitalist philosopher, Phineas Taylor Barnum, allegedly observed, there's a sucker born every minute.

And two to take 'em.  

No Half Measures