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.
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.