The True Colors of Trump... Lincoln Project Ad 6/01/2020
June 1, 2020 - The Lincoln Project’s latest ad, Treason, released today, laments American citizens who fly the confederate flag as a veil of “patriotism” when it is nothing more than a symbol of a treasonous, and failed uprising against the United States. Reed Galen, co-founder of The Lincoln Project said, “The Confederate flag is a symbol of slavery and disunion. Its history is one of sowing division and oppression. Those who fly it proudly are celebrating the legacy of American slavery, the wrongful, and violent insurrection that followed, and the oppressive Jim Crow regime that came into power in many states.” “No patriotic American should brandish or proudly celebrate the iconography of a rebellion that resulted in tremendous devastation, the loss of more than 620,000 American lives, and the continued subjugation of Black America,” Galen continued. “Our namesake, Abraham Lincoln fought to preserve the Union. The Lincoln Project will do the same during the course of this campai...