Promoting extremists in the other party on the theory that the extremists are weaker candidates is the least principled (and flat out dumb) political strategy I've ever heard.
Democrats helped John Gibbs defeat Pete Meijer in the Michigan republican primary. Gibbs's only qualification is that he really likes to s*ck off Trump. I'm actually hoping that the little Democratic weasels who boosted Trump's candidates in the primaries lose in the general elections. People with no principles do not deserve to be in public office.
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an op-ed that Meijer published the day before the primary, in Common Sense, Bari Weiss’s newsletter, he lashed out at Democrats who talked about the existential threat to democracy posed by election deniers, then boosted Gibbs’s campaign. Meijer is right to be angry. He also noted that his contest wasn’t the only one in which Democratic Party entities or candidates had spent money in an attempt to secure the Republican nomination for a truly extreme candidate. . . .
The saddest aspect of Meijer’s comments is how bitter he sounds. “I’m sick and tired of hearing the sanctimonious bullshit about the Democrats being the pro-democracy party,” he told Politico.<<<
Will Democrats come to regret the tactic of boosting extreme, election-denying Republican candidates?
www.newyorker.com
If you think this is a smart strategy, I remind you of Hillary Clinton's moronic strategy to promote Trump in the 2016 Republican primary on the theory that he was a weak candidate:
>>>What was not often acknowledged in Trump's heated race against Democrat Hillary Clinton, however, was how her campaign fueled his rise to power.
An email recently released by the whistleblowing organization WikiLeaks shows how the Clinton campaign and Democratic Party bear direct responsibility for propelling the bigoted billionaire to the White House.
In its self-described "pied piper" strategy, the Clinton campaign proposed intentionally cultivating extreme right-wing presidential candidates, hoping to turn them into the new "mainstream of the Republican Party" in order to try to increase Clinton's chances of winning.
The Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee called for using far-right candidates "as a cudgel to move the more established candidates further to the right." Clinton's camp insisted that Trump and other extremists should be "elevated" to "leaders of the pack" and media outlets should be told to "take them seriously."
The strategy backfired — royally.<<<
An email released by WikiLeaks shows how the Democratic Party purposefully "elevated" Trump to "leader of the pack"
www.salon.com
