Republicans don’t believe in elections, so it’s not surprising they’re not trying to win elections.
Just for fun, let’s list a few of the ways they’re making themselves unpopular and pushing away voters:
- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) claimed the Jan. 6 insurrection would have been successful if she and Steve Bannon had organized it, because they would have armed the insurrectionists.
- Trump said the Constitution should be “terminated” so he can be reinstated as president.
- Trump entertained two notorious anti-Semites, Kanye West and Nick Fuentes, at his Mar-a-Lago digs. Empowering anti-Semites is not how you win over the majority of voters in this country.
- Text messages revealed that in the days after the Capitol riot, Rep. Ralph Norman (R-NC) urged Mark Meadows, Trump’s chief of staff, to get his boss to take over the country with martial law in order to stay in power — banana republic stuff.
- A raft of bad candidates, such as Tim Michels in Wisconsin, who promised he was elected “Republicans would never lose again; Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania, an election denier involved in the Jan. 6 insurrection who vowed to erase the separation of church and state, and would have exerted substantial control over elections there; and Kari Lake in Arizona, whose election denial borders on asylum-ready. All these candidates lost, not least because they spooked voters with their nuttiness.
An analysis of the 2022 midterms, which didn’t go well for Republicans, by the Associated Press and Fox News found that 44% of voters called “the future of democracy in this country” the single most important factor for them. That’s not good news for a party that has dedicated itself to eliminating democracy in America.
The moral is if you act like you don’t want to be the majority party, you won’t be.