The strategy seems to have paid off: In high-profile races where Democratic candidates or groups successfully used the strategy during the primaries, all of the Republicans they helped have either lost or are trailing, two days after Election Day.

[–] ISometimesAdmin@the.coolest.zone 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If the GOP wanted to counterattack, they could always start funding hyper-progressive candidates too 🙂

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think they discovered that was at least going on with Bernie

[–] Pinklink@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah but then they stabbed him in the back because they were scared he would do well (which he probably would) and they are just as scared of the system actually being shaken up

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

A perfect example of short term thinking that plagues US politics. Democrats boosted popularity of the far right to win a primary. This directly contributed to the republicans party sliding further into MAGA territory. Now, dems are looking at a wipe out by Trump in the coming election. This continues the great tradition of liberals ushering in fascism.

[–] owen@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

This is so stupid. Essentially 50 million into the money pit.