Disgusting Lincoln Project Ad Puts Family on the Chopping Block

Does anyone think this ends well? Does anyone really expect people to just nod along as the most essential bond on Earth is cut down at the altar of politics?

I was trawling around the Internet today when I came across a new ad from failed anti-Trump advocacy group The Lincoln Project. 

“A good father knows how important it is to protect his daughter,” the possibly pedophilic organization tweeted. “This November, fathers need to protect their daughters from Donald Trump.” Below was a short, nearly two-minute long clip decrying Trump’s policy on abortion and accusing men of allowing women to die by voting for him.

“You knew what he’d do,” an exasperated woman says as the music begins to swell. “You knew his politics would end my freedom, my rights, my life. You chose hate over me.”

It’s not particularly shocking that The Lincoln Project is attempting to hang its hat on abortion as the issue to take down Trump. There’s a million think pieces and analyses out there that show abortion is one of the worst issues for the GOP right now.

What’s far more interesting and impactful than the discussion on GOP abortion policy is the impact it’s having on the family structure. I encountered the Lincoln Project ad on a leftist Reddit forum I scour. And the response from many posters there, who were almost gleeful in describing how they cut off members of their families over different politics. 

“My husband and I stopped going home to visit his family because we burned so much vacation time and money to travel to their bum fuck little towns thousands of miles away, and they would spend the whole time trying to "trigger us" and jeer at us for being leftists from a big city,” one poster commented. 

“Similar situation for me. This summer I paid a bunch of money and burned vacation time to drop everything and go visit my parents after a difficult medical diagnosis,” another concurred. “I didn't expect thanks exactly, but what I really didn't appreciate was being needled constantly about being a "snowflake liberal. I won't be returning to visit. I feel kinda bad because their medical situation is quite dire. But I decided that I'm not going to feel too guilty for not visiting assholes, even if they are dying.”

Some might argue this isn’t a representative sample of the larger liberal voter base. But r/Politics boasts nearly 9 million users and is in the top 1% of forums on the site. It’s not perfect, but it’s a microcosm of what these types of people think. And the consensus seemed to be that while it’s unfortunate that people felt the need to cut their family off, they should do so over political disagreement. 

We see this play out in that Lincoln Project ad, where the implication is that you should shame and separate yourself from your family if you disagree on policy. Which is absolutely nuts. 

As a personal note, I am the sole conservative in my immediate family and have never once considered cutting my parents or brother off based on our differing views and they have never once considered cutting me off. We disagree on Trump, abortion, and foreign policy but we still get together at Christmas for spirited debates over the dinner table. 

That’s what families do. They fight, argue, and love each other. This drive to tear the most basic building block of civilization apart over petty politics is an actual existential threat that needs to stop. Even the most evil men in history realized that their societies would crumble if the son turned on his father. 

Joseph Stalin once noted that a propaganda story about Soviet youth Pavlik Morozov ratting his dad out to the state was not to his tastes. According to the story, Morozov denounced his father to Soviet authorities for opposing collectivization, leading to his father's arrest. In retaliation, Morozov was killed by family members, leading the government to label him as a martyr and role model.

Stalin reportedly said of the story "What a little swine, denouncing his own father."

The evidence is clear that when people don’t have family to rely on, society crumbles. Much has been written around the endemic fatherlessness in the black community, and how the collapse of the nuclear family has laid waste to the American social fabric. It takes someone truly heinous to both encourage that behavior and say it is a net good to isolate from political opposition. 

It’s something practiced by both Democrats and cults. 

Scientology has a policy called Disconnection, where they recommend “a self-determined decision made by an individual that he is not going to be connected to another. It is a severing of a communication line.”

I don’t talk to Dad anymore because he doesn’t believe in Xenu, er, abortion rights. Does anyone think this ends well? Does anyone really expect people to just nod along as the most essential bond on Earth is cut down at the altar of politics? 

The Lincoln Project’s insidious ad isn't a critique of Trump; it’s a clear and dangerous call for division that urges families to abandon their loved ones over ideological differences. It’s not about abortion or immigration or any single policy. It's a direct assault on the fabric that holds society together.

No policy is worth ending the familial bond over.