“You Can Feel When the Stakes Are Real”: The Lincoln Project Is Still Alive and Kicking After a Near-Fatal Tumble

Steve Schmidt stares straight into the camera, his eyes cold. “Make no mistake,” the former top Republican strategist says. “The idea that the Lincoln Project story is a story of the good people against the bad people is a very naive take on this.” Five hours of behind-the-scenes backstabbing, big-money hardball, and the creation of piercing attacks on then president Donald Trump—all of which unspools in Showtime’s The Lincoln Project documentary series, which premiered October 7—make Schmidt’s words come across as an epic understatement. “We thought we were going to be telling a story like The War Room,” says Fisher… Read Full Article