Why would Democrats try to reach the MAGATs at all? If they are running anti-Trump attack ads they are targeting the “moderate” Republicans who don’t pay enough attention to know how bad their primary options are. They know they can’t affect Trump supporters. But there’s a bunch of disaffected people who identify as Republicans but dislike Trump.
and most of the population occupying the tiny sliver of political real estate between the most conservative Democrats and the least conservative Republicans
It’s not as big as the 90s, but it’s still substantial. Trump galvanized a lot of people into moving further towards the edges but the majority of Americans are politically apathetic. You only have to look at voter turnout to see that.
Why would Democrats try to reach the MAGATs at all?
Because they mistakenly believe that doing so will make a candidate that isn’t palatable to the overall electorate win the primaries and provide an easy general election for their own candidate.
Didn’t you read the article? It’s all in there…
It’s not as big as the 90s, but it’s still substantial
Nowhere near as substantial as the Dem leadership thinks. If it had been, their 1992 strategy of going for the mythical “independents” would give them landslide wins in the vast majority of races in stead of barely eking out tiny specidic wins for tiny majorities, even losing the House to the most incompetent fascist party in history.
Why would Democrats try to reach the MAGATs at all? If they are running anti-Trump attack ads they are targeting the “moderate” Republicans who don’t pay enough attention to know how bad their primary options are. They know they can’t affect Trump supporters. But there’s a bunch of disaffected people who identify as Republicans but dislike Trump.
It’s not as big as the 90s, but it’s still substantial. Trump galvanized a lot of people into moving further towards the edges but the majority of Americans are politically apathetic. You only have to look at voter turnout to see that.
Because they mistakenly believe that doing so will make a candidate that isn’t palatable to the overall electorate win the primaries and provide an easy general election for their own candidate.
Didn’t you read the article? It’s all in there…
Nowhere near as substantial as the Dem leadership thinks. If it had been, their 1992 strategy of going for the mythical “independents” would give them landslide wins in the vast majority of races in stead of barely eking out tiny specidic wins for tiny majorities, even losing the House to the most incompetent fascist party in history.