A group of so-called Republicans seeking to hold fellow Republicans “accountable” for the actions of those who breached the U.S. Capitol last month, made headlines last week with its $1 million billboard ad campaign calling on Republicans like Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley to resign. While the group claims to be attempting to restore the integrity of the Republican party, a closer look at its leadership reveals that its effort may simply be a culmination of long time inner-party disdain from a handful of the most notoriously self-righteously “principled” Republicans.
The group, headed up by America’s favorite neoconservative Bill Kristol seeks to prevent fellow Republicans from being able to “simply move on” from the events of Jan. 6, for which it seeks to hold Republican members of Congress accountable.
It calls itself the Republican Accountability Project, and is the latest iteration of the Defending Democracy Together Institute which – at the direction of Kristol – seeks to rid the Republican party of what it calls “unsettling nativist and authoritarian impulses,” and “abuses of power that threaten to undermine the integrity of U.S. elections, federal agencies, and the Republican Party as a whole.”
Perhaps the most widely recognized faction of the Institute is its news arm The Bulwark. It’s Publisher – Sarah Longwell joins Kristol in directing the Republican Accountability Project.
Although The Bulwark bills itself as a publication catering to reasonable, non-Trumpian style Republicans, it often echoes vehemently anti-Republican sentiments, such as with one of its most recent headlines “The GOP Has Nothing to Offer except division and lies.”
Other headlines currently appearing on The Bulwark’s front page include:
How to Destroy the Republican Party
Republicans Make Me Proud I Voted for Biden
GOP Senators’ Bogus Arguments Against Trying and Convicting Trump
Tucker Carlson and The Deep Lie
Joining the Bulwarkers as the Director of the program is Former DHS Deputy Chief of Staff Elizabeth Neumann. Neumann made recent headlines as she endorsed Joe Biden for President after her departure from the Trump administration.
Neumann has recently gained attention from the mainstream media for speaking out against the Trump administration’s facilitation of what she characterizes as an epidemic of right-wing extremist domestic terrorism. She has claimed that Trump’s policies were “impacted by white nationalism.”
During an MSNBC appearance, Neumann criticized Trump’s use of the phrase “domestic terrorism” to characterize the activities of Antifa, even though he “refused” to use the term for the El Paso shooting.
She went on to insist that the “right wing extremist’ movement is a larger threat to America than Antifa, saying that DHS had no reason to believe that Antifa would cause “widespread lethal violence against people” in the same way that right-wing actors would.
“Republicans would like to simply move on. But without accountability there is no clear path forward,” explains the group’s website. “That is why we’ve launched the Republican Accountability Project.”
The groups stated goals include supporting Republicans who are “defying party leadership,” and “work[ing] to unseat” Republicans who questioned the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election by “promoting primary challengers” through its PAC. It also seeks to dispel what it calls “lies and conspiracy theories” about the general concept of widespread voter fraud.
Its website includes a “Republican Hall of Shame” of 22 Republican members of Congress including Sen. Ted Cruz, Rep. Matt Gaetz, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Sen. Josh Hawley, and Rep. Jim Jordan.
“We’re showing the direct line between the destructive rhetoric of Congressional Republicans and the attack on the U.S. Capitol. Airing in January,” the group boasts.
While its current campaigns are focused on politicians, the group has also promised to target private citizens who it believes to be “at fault” for the Capitol Siege, including “‘journalists’,” and “political entertainers, as well as supposed “conspiracy theory mongers, and extremists.”
“We will force those who spread their lies to confront the truth,” the group threatens.
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“Republican Deep State Accountability Project” headed by Bill New World Order Open Borders Kristol. Need I say more?
Accountability? Integrity? THOSE are foreign concepts to these crooks…
These aren’t Republicans. These are people getting rich off our backs and need to go. Trump just took on the swamp and the swamp won because we the people didn’t go to DC and back him. Not to attack the capital like the BLM, Antifa And rogue members of Militias did. But as citizens. Letting them know enough is enough. Trump is taking the hit for saying what we all already thought.
MAYBE that’s why we failed. WE DIDN’T USE their own tactics, against the swamp…
If i’m not mistaken, Kristol and his “Neocon” ilk were Democrats until the ’90s. The only reason they’re still Republicans is because the GOP establishment is about as far Left as the Democrat Party was in the ’80s–but they’re working on it!
Bill Kristol and other “old time “ Republicans are upset that Trump realigned the GOP to champion working class and middle class voters and not the wealthy country club voters of old. Trump has brought in more minorities and people of color than any candidate since Richard Nixon in 1960. These old guard Republicans don’t like fighting and engaging. They like the occasional victories and marginal issues they sometimes can affect. They are big supporters of the defense industry and the endless wars with the business gained from them.
They want their party back but they have never really fought hard for anything. They are creating a minor divisiveness we don’t need. If the Dems want to cancel and sanction may I recommend this as a good place to start before moving on to the Gang of Four.
“We will force those who spread their lies to confront the truth,” the group threatens.
Force ? Bring it on RINOS !!
“Boom!”
Coup time and they know it, that’s why they are using our money to build a fence around themselves.
It is not a “Coup” if the one’s your deposing are traitors to their oath “To preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the United States … “.
These days, i doubt there’s a SINGLE ONE of those schleps in congress, left, who ACTUALLY HONOR that oath.
Matthew 7:15-20
15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16 You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. 18 A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.
“false prophets” represents anyone who misrepresents the truth, and
You will recognize them by their “fruits”. (words and actions)
My opinion about what will finally put to rest all these “Conspiracy Theories” regarding the 2020 Presidential Election – “Sunshine!”. Once the democrats open the door to witnesses at the up coming Impeachment Trial, the Trump Team should present every bit of evidence Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud are based on. To deny them the opportunity do do so will, to me and millions of other Americans, be proof positive that both democrats and republican RINO’s are afraid of letting We, the People hear, let alone evaluate for themselves, whatever evidence there may be. (If they were positive there wasn’t any, they’d be welcoming it to be heard and viewed with open arms.
About the lawsuits brought by the Voting Machine Company: This impeachment trial, if the witnesses are “Allowed” to be presented, could actually short circuit the lawsuits.
What makes you think, they would CARE IF “we saw it” that they are afraid?? THEY control the media, the fbi, doj, atf and now the military..
Years ago I saw Krystal at a Fourth of July celebration in Philly, he actually seemed Republican. Since then, probably at the time we dodged the first wholehearted attempt to create Philadelphia into the socialist center of America, and until 2016, he has taken it as his right to trash an agenda spot on for America. What disconnects in the minds of these pseudo-aristocratic oligarchs that makes them believe they have the right to savage the wishes, as shown by their votes, of millions of hard working Americans? Does he really do anything useful or is he like the other side of the Lincoln Project?