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‘Interns Coming Out of My Ears’: The Decline and Fall of the ‘Greatest Super PAC in American History’

“I’m not sure my penis could be any more erect right now,” Rick Wilson squeals in episode one of The Lincoln Project, a Showtime documentary series about the disgraced super PAC he founded in 2019. Wilson, a frumpy troll who spends an unhealthy amount of time on Twitter telling strangers he just slept with their wives, is reviewing a new digital ad the group is about to post online. Like most of their work, it’s subtle and cerebral. You see, it attacks Donald Trump—who has been known to call his enemies “losers”—by calling him a loser. Brilliant.

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. If they had a different goal in mind—making a difference in the election, “saving democracy”—the result was less clear. 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.

In hindsight, given the players involved, the Lincoln Project’s self-inflicted downfall seems inevitable. 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…

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