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minus-squareelpaso [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·4 days agoThey did this in 2022 as well. It never works. They never learn.
minus-squarechgxvjh [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·4 days agoThird time is the charm
minus-squareSleepless One@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·4 days agoI know of the 2016 one, but not the 2022 one. What are the details of that?
minus-squaremiz [any, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-24 days agoiirc the DNC funded and encouraged a bunch of extremely racist and fringe GOP 2022 congressional primary candidates in a repeat of the 2016 pied piper strategy
minus-squareelpaso [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-23 days agohttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/07/democrats-boosted-extremists-republican-primaries-was-that-wise Funnily enough a lot of conservative papers were complaining about it at the time because Trump was seen as toxic in 2022 until Desantis cratered. I don’t think they needed to run it in 2024. Desantis was just that bad lol.
They did this in 2022 as well.
It never works. They never learn.
Third time is the charm
I know of the 2016 one, but not the 2022 one. What are the details of that?
iirc the DNC funded and encouraged a bunch of extremely racist and fringe GOP 2022 congressional primary candidates in a repeat of the 2016 pied piper strategy
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/07/democrats-boosted-extremists-republican-primaries-was-that-wise
Funnily enough a lot of conservative papers were complaining about it at the time because Trump was seen as toxic in 2022 until Desantis cratered.
I don’t think they needed to run it in 2024. Desantis was just that bad lol.