The Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump group led by formerly Republican consultants, has become an affront to its namesake. The group is working to destroy the political party Abraham Lincoln built.

If the group contented itself with trying to defeat President Trump, its founders could at least claim that they were interested in opposing an individual they viewed as a norm-destroying threat to conservatism. But the Lincoln Project is not stopping there. It is now fighting a political holy war to defeat Republicans up and down the ballot, with a particular focus on transferring the Senate majority from Republicans to Democrats.