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Originally Posted by opendoor
You'd think, but Democratic leadership has demonstrated an uncanny ability to completely misunderstand the average voter.
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I don't think it's not understanding voters, I think it's placing too much faith in voters to do the right thing and follow their values and character. You would think they would learn and be less trusting of people, but they don't. They still hold out hope that people will stand erect and use the very brain inside their craniums. Bad decision based on the intelligence level of the average American and just how negatively impacted they are by social media.
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To be fair to them, the President's party losing the House and Senate in a mid-term election is pretty much par for the course. But knowing that, they should have probably not spent money trying to get the worst candidates into the general election. Not to mention, positioning MAGA candidates as an existential threat to American democracy while simultaneously helping them win primaries creates a pretty hollow argument.
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It gives validation to the extreme voices is what it does. You have invited them to the table and you have encouraged them to spew their hateful rhetoric to a segment of the population that is open to authoritarianism. It is a bad strategy, but one Republicans have used to push voters away from candidates on the left. Being branded as a socialist is a death sentence to most politicians in the United States. While it may be abhorrent to a lot of people, being branded a white supremacist Christian nationalist extremist is a badge of honor on the right and makes them that much more endearing to the Trump set.