rick_pcfl wrote:
chaparral wrote:
rick_pcfl wrote:
I am hoping that the rousing cheers of the deplorables don't match up to actual voters who are fed up with her bigotry. I never would have thought that people in congress would openly display their bigotry like that. But the cheers just make them bolder.
You think this is going to hurt her with the voters she needs? I think this will only energize her voters.
The question is whether there are enough people who support her to give her enough votes to win. I assume that in her first election she was somewhat unknown. Anyone running against her will have plenty of ammo.
I did see where some people are challenging her eligibility based on the KKK act (IIRC) like people in NC were doing with cawthorn. If nothing else, challenging that will call attention to her actions for those who might be moderate.
What ammo exactly? Like her telling to a gay man to stay out women's bathrooms? The people turned off by that were not going to be voting for her anyway. Is it the insane conspiracies? The GOP is made up of conspiracy theorists. Just look at those Ginni Thomas texts to the White House chief of staff, she is a powerful woman in conservative circles and a total loon. Not to mention Mark Meadows, who is not some random person either, but was also texting wild things. Just look at polling how many Republican voters believe his nonsense. Conspiracy nonsense is not turning away her voters.
I don't think an attempt to keep her off the ballot, or what will inevitably called "cancel culture" will dampen her support with Republicans.
The thing this tactic is not sustainable long term, many Republican strategists know this, they know these voters are dying and not being replaced. But they also see that trump almost won in 2020, they see Republicans are basically a lock to take the house, and they see a chance to take the senate going down this path. They know if they pivot to Mitt Romney, it will hurt them, because the trump voters will stay home. They now see this strategy is going to work to work for at least another decade, if they keep the trump voters totally engaged. It could last even longer with SCOTUS under their control. So while they know a cliff is coming, changing course now means no power now, but possibly power in the future. The problem is that it is not logical to give up the power now for a possibility of power later, so they will keep their foot on the gas and the car headed for the cliff. They will deal with the cliff when it comes, but that could be well over a decade from now, so why worry?
