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…but TLP sometimes gets judged for not being a liberal group and talking the liberal talk. >sigh<
What they are is a bunch of Never-Trumpers and former Republicans who were really good at winning elections back in the day, but as of 2015 a bunch got off that train, and as the Trump admin rolled on, more and more saw him and his cult as an existential threat to small-d democracy and the small-r republic. The Lincoln Project was one notable response.
I find them very interesting, especially Steve Schmidt and Rick Wilson, and (full disclosure) I’ve donated to TLP. We can sincerely agree on a few things, like the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and that the US is not a “white Christian country” but a democracy and a republic.
But one thing they are not is liberals or progressives — and they are not talking to us, because we already hate Trump and Trumpism and already are working to defeat them. They are talking to Republicans, specifically any R at all who could be persuaded that Trumpism is dangerous to the country and must be resoundingly defeated. Last year, several of their ads were so narrowly tailored that they were literally for an audience of one: Trump himself, in an effort to get under that thin skin of his.
So, let me apologize again for snapping at you. It was a knee-jerk response, & I hope we can make up for it in the future. 