![]() ![]() The Lincoln Project is not the puff piece they presumably set to make, which is why it debuted last month as opposed to last year. ![]() Stevens, the white Hollywood actor and Democratic donor best known for portraying an Indian doctor in the Short Circuit movies, linked up with the group after being seduced by one of those viral ads. At the time of its launch, however, few could have anticipated the lurid saga about to unfold in front of the cameras, least of all directors Karim Amer and Fisher Stevens, who started filming at the height of the pandemic in 2020. In hindsight, given the players involved, the Lincoln Project's self-inflicted downfall seems inevitable. The five-part series tells the story of how an organization dedicated to exposing Trump's apparent flaws-his galactic arrogance, insatiable greed, childish behavior, petty feuds, crude language, sexual malfeasance, and dysfunctional leadership-came to embody those same flaws before collapsing into itself like a dying star. If they had a different goal in mind-making a difference in the election, "saving democracy"-the result was less clear. If the goal was to make viral videos antagonizing Trump that would seduce the national media, assuage some mentally disturbed liberals, and raise money for the Lincoln Project, it worked.
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