Article drama aside, we’ve seen this strat before with mixed results. In '16, the democrats bet big that MAGA would be more unpalatable to voters than HRC and corporatist Democrats, and got everybody (including themselves) punched in the fucking mouth for it. Slow clap, you guys, never going to let you live that down. However, since '20, MAGA has been underperforming, particularly anyone not Trump. Boebart managed to make one of the safest seats in Colorado into a narrow race, and there were multiple elections where mainstream GOP candidates won the governorship while downticket maga reactionaries fared twenty points worse and lost.

So, seeing the DNC do it again is kinda like… Wasn’t getting burned once enough for you guys? But I also see why they’re banking on MAGA underporforming-- because it has been. Idk, just seems insane to me to risk the future of the country boosting these fucking assholes; let us not forget that the HRC campaign boosting DJT in '16 is part of the reason we’re in this mess in the first place.