Defeating Trump & Trumpism In 2020...

While perusing the blogosphere for articles shedding more light on the the threat Trumpism and its chaotic and incompetent architect, Donald J. Trump, the following USA Today article by Kurt Bardella caught my eye. Kurt's perspective is, IMO, spot on. So I took the liberty of reproducing, in part, here at Rational Nation USA. Home of truthful and anti GOP tyranny blogging. 

Our nation's top priority, if we value our democratic republic, is defeating the enemies of  the people. In our time that enemy is Trump and Trumpism.

On Nov. 3, the American people will participate in what I believe to be the most pivotal election of this young century. In a short amount of time, the unthinkable has happened. A feckless thug with no regard for constitutional norms has ascended to the highest office in the land. Every day, he leads an assault against our most precious freedoms.

He has threatened to unleash military force on his own citizens. He has looked the other way while a foreign adversary reportedly put a bounty on our men and women in uniform. He has ignored warnings from medical professionals and presided over the mass spreading of a deadly disease. He has inflamed racial tensions in this country in a desperate attempt to cling onto power. He is the greatest threat to freedom and democracy that this republic has ever confronted. This is an all-hands-on-deck situation and for that reason, I have joined the political crusaders known as the Lincoln Project.

As described by its founders, long-time Republican consultants Rick Wilson, Steve Schmidt, John Weaver, George Conway and Reed Galen, the Lincoln Project is an effort that “transcends partisanship and is dedicated to nothing less than preservation of the principles that so many have fought for, on battlefields far from home and within their own communities.”

The identity and ideology of this organization isn’t left or right, Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative — it’s simply the truth. To me, the Lincoln Project is the pirate ship I’ve been looking to join for the better part of four years.

In March of 2016, I made the decision to stop representing Breitbart News as its public relations consultant. Up until that moment, I had spent the entirety of my professional career, which started when I was 17 years old, working with and for Republicans at all levels of government. I was done with politics, and it seemed, politics was done with me. ...

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In ways I could not have forecast, this passion project became my liberator. My professional identity was no longer tied to a political party, political figure or partisan media company. My livelihood was not at the mercy of an election cycle or reliant upon political patronage. For the first time in my life, I was free to say whatever I wanted, about whomever I wanted, with no regard for the political implications.

As time went on, I began writing for publications like USA TODAY and appearing on cable news channels, like MSNBC and CNN, to give my unfiltered perspective about what was happening to the Republican Party as Trumpism began to rise.

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It may take Republicans to beat Trump

For years, I have been frustrated with what I perceived to be the Democrats’ hesitancy to take the fight to Trump and his Republican accomplices. Former First Lady Michelle Obama’s famous catchphrase, “When they go low, we go high,” makes for stirring oratory, but is not a recipe for defeating the cancer that is Trump. Maybe it’s as simple as it takes a Republican to beat a Republican. In just six months, the Lincoln Project has built a digital content machine producing dozens of viral videos and ads that has infiltrated the narrow head space of Trump and his campaign.

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The Lincoln Project has become the tip of the spear in the battle to repel Trumpism and wipe out those who have cravenly enabled his tyranny. Cycle after cycle, truth has become cannon fodder in campaigns waged over the same ideological entrenchments. In reality, most of Americans agree on most of the issues, most of the time. Given that, maybe it’s time to move the goal posts and reframe what our elections are really about. This coming one could not be more clear: One side believes in truth, the other does not.

Kurt Bardella is a senior adviser for the Lincoln Project, a member of USA TODAY’s Board of Contributors and an MSNBC contributor. He was the spokesman and senior adviser for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Republicans from 2009-2013. Follow him on Twitter: @kurtbardella