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minus-squareSleepless One@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·5 months agoI know of the 2016 one, but not the 2022 one. What are the details of that?
minus-squaremiz [any, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·5 months agoiirc the DNC funded and encouraged a bunch of extremely racist and fringe GOP congressional primary candidates in a repeat of the pied piper strategy in 2016
minus-squareelpaso [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 months 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.
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 congressional primary candidates in a repeat of the pied piper strategy in 2016
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.