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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
What's happening is those folks are becoming perhaps the most important part of the Republican party because they are highly motivated and well financed; remember, Republican primaries in 2020, a high-turnout year, totaled about 18 million voters. Now revisit the "maybe 10 million" number you had - that's a number that, with high motivation, can dominate that process.
Today, I suspect you can count on one hand the Republicans who can be elected without enthusiastic backing from that constituency. Certainly here in Massachusetts, they chased an otherwise popular Republican governor from oiffice.
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Oh, I totally agree the loons are essential. But they also punch above their weight in primaries and often wind up costing the GOP in the generals.
They pissed away the Governor's mansion here by nominating a person so insane none but the most hardened social conservatives and election deniers will vote for him.
The Democrats here also ran ads for the crazy fucker to ensure they'd get to run against a certain loser. Some people would call that sort of gamesmanship an example of what's wrong with politics, but there are two other adjectives that fit: genius, and pretty fucking funny.
