New Lincoln Project video: a Republican wakes up after a three-year coma

This is good because it consolidates all the outrages. We are used to almost daily new outrages and we are worn down. What works with this is that if anyone were to hear everything that has happened in one sitting it would be devastating.

I’m annoyed by the fact that it’s dramatized - I automatically feel manipulated. I can only imagine what Republicans think.

Stick to the facts LincolnProject.

R2 I agree, it's diluting the strong focus on facts

Republicans ARE easily manipulated, r2. Have the past 5 years taught you nothing?

But they don’t feel manipulated when Trump and the Repugs do it - they feel part of a once-victimized, now-winning team.

Their egos won’t let this one through, R4.

They went after Mitch too. Ha!

Good concept, a little too windy and cutesy.

This is like the third time this has been posted, but the more the merrier. Who are the actors?

almost 7 minutes long? Ain't nobody got time for that.

I love the Lincoln Project, but this is like the cold opening of a reboot of ER.

Too long and it gets muddled. Should have kept it simply and punchy with the coma guy saying "I remember Trump said this..." and his family has to respond with "Well, actually...."

It should have been cast with real "name" actors (masked for maximum "WTF? Who is that?" attention-grabbing).

Too long, but wow that's a fucked up dark ending.

Stephen Root is there. I love that guy

Are you sure it's him? I'll have to watch some old Stephen Root and then this again.

Then make your own damned ad, if you don't like this one. You see the people on here saying, 'why can't the democrats make ads like the Lincoln Project does?". It's because there are too many back seat drivers in the democratic party. Everybody always has something to say and wants to put their two cents in. Just let the Lincoln Project do their thing. No one needs any notes from anyone else.

I thought it was Stephen Root, too.

It is Stephen Root. It is in the announcement from the Lincoln Project that was emailed out to everyone who has donated. (I did not donate, I just bought a great T-Shirt).

The actress playing the mom was on Six Feet Under - her character was horrible but she was great, she worked for the corporate chain of funeral homes trying to put The Fishers out of business

Also, I love how the daughter says “supposebly” lol

Could be tightened up with some editing.

How do you make this film any shorter? Leave out which atrocity? Ignore what inconsistency between Trump's words and actions? Brush aside how many deaths, job losses, and economic gains down the toilet to Trump's ignorance, stupidity and worse, malfeasance? And the funny part, the video didn't even touch on the financial crimes the Trump mob family has committed, and how many hundreds of billions of dollars they've stolen.

I love it but then I was never going to vote for Trump, none of his voters are going to sit and watch a 6 minute video of Republicans being mocked, so it will change no minds. They need 30 second videos that hit him hard, not lightly.

R21 saying "Could be tightened up with some editing" Is a well worn cliche. I'm sure r20 meant it with heavy irony. Like beginning a story with"it was a dark and stormy night".

The whole premise is a reverse cliche, R23, since you mention it: "And then my alarm clock went off and I realized the whole thing was a dream". Creative Writing 101 mistakes. What makes this Lincoln Project video powerful is that all the crazy is true. It's too long though.

More effective if split up into one-minute "episodes". They could go on for hours!

R24 r21 or you could speed it up or skip. But this being DL, approach it like listening to Tchaikovsky as played by Liberace, speeded up and shortened with "all the boring parts cut out" As he used to say.

Bad ad. It makes the people that voted for him look stupid using a dramatization. Is this supposed to sway those voters. It will make them angry and have them dig in for being called stupid. They need more ads with facts, no dramatization. They need an ad that says, We thought Trump would bring change, he brought chaos. Are you better off? Let's rebuild and get back on track so we can have actual disagreements again.

The Lincoln Project merely has to use the words of Charlie Chaplin.