Stirewaltisms: Dems Do Some Dirty Work for GOP 2024

The January 6 committee's work highlighting Trump's scurrilous post-election behavior can only help Republicans stave off trouble in the next presidential election.

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It must vex Democrats on the January 6 Committee to know that their work is helping Republicans fumigate their own party of 2020 election kookism. 

The hearings are probably not going to have much effect on midterm elections, which, thanks to a combination of the midterm curse for first-term presidents and a rapidly deteriorating economic situation, are shaping up to be a bad beating for the blue team. But the hearings are providing a valuable service to Republicans who need a way to move on from Donald Trump before the 2024 cycle gets underway. 

Primary results in South Carolina and Nevada this week show that Trump and his attempted usurpation remain popular in significant portions of the GOP. 

Nevada Republicans this week chose a nominee to take on Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, probably the second most vulnerable Democrat in the upper chamber after Georgia’s Raphael Warnock. Silver State Republicans picked former state Attorney General Adam Laxalt, who worked hard to bolster Trump’s efforts to steal a second term. While Laxalt has a famous name and has been elected statewide before, his embrace of a fairly radical version of Trump nationalism and claims about the 2020 election will be a problem for Republicans trying to flip a seat in a blue-hued swing state. 

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    Ben Connelly

    I don’t know if she’ll read it, but I figured I’d wish Samantha farewell and good luck! Thank you for the work you’ve done in helping Chris make this newsletter possible! It’s always refreshing to hear from/about (fellow) young people who buck the stereotypes.

    Thank you to Chris for letting your young colleague try her hand at answering the mailbag today.

    And welcome aboard to Abbey!

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    Octávio Lima

    It has been maddening to see all of these people still defending Trump. directly or indirectly, as well as listening to those who say they want Trump policies without Trump. There are no Trump policies. Where he was successful was simply ordinary GOP policies. I still do not understand how he could co-opt the message of the GOP and still command so much allegiance. It baffles me.

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    DougAz

    It's now fundamentally clear, that voting for any Republican is paving the path to hell for America. Certainly until we're past 2024.

    Unless you have an announced anti-Trump candidate...like brave Liz Cheney, the Republicans as constructed are going to screw America. Believe it.

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      Ralph S

      I disagree, Pat. I see Trump remaining in play and on the '24 ticket as a tactical win for the Democrats. Some 35-40% of Republicans do not buy into Trumps clam to have won the election. Many will not vote for him because they find his lies so obnoxious (him personally too). Conservative independents will not vote for him as a greater percentage because they already are not party loyalists (I'm in this group). Can't be a RINO if you're not a Republican to begin with.
      I would agree with Bill Barr's suggestive assessment that perhaps Trump has lost touch with reality. Although Trump can probably win the candidacy, I don't think he can win the election again. Anyway, I wouldn't trust him to act in the national best interest as much as he did first time around. He's more off his rocker than before.

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    Ralph S

    "We don’t know who Democrats are going to nominate, but we certainly know that Trump will be in worse condition in 2024 than his already weakened state in 2020."
    Trumps worse condition is his own doing. If the Jan 6 hearings lead to a successful prosecution of Trump for inciting a riot or seditious conspiracy to stop the legitimate transfer of power, the Republicans win. They can get a new conservative candidate without all the effort Trump puts into alienating his own support. Trump in play is good for the Democrats chances since they cannot win on successful economic, social, or foreign and domestic policies.
    Trump is divisive and destroys his own support by putting himself before the constitution and truth in general.

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  6. Jack Zentrist

    I don’t think I’ve seen that word, “kookism,” but it’s a colorful choice and so helps to drive the point home.

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    O.W.L.

    Democrats are doing the right thing for the COUNTRY. This is an irresponsible horse-race analysis. If these hearings result in somebody other than Trump or Trump jr. being nominated by the Republicans in 2024, then we as a country are better off.

    Instead of framing the hearings as an own goal for Team Blue, why not frame it as Team Blue does the right thing?

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    cheerio

    I find the news of some Democratic organizations supporting weaker Republican candidates in their primaries to not be news actually. It is a popular Republican political strategy used in the last presidential election (who do you think financially supported Kanye West's campaign?) as well as their support for Green Party candidates in attempts to split the progressive/liberal vote. They have even run fake Democratic candidates in Florida primaries.

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    PWLaw

    I did not know that Georgia’s Raphael Warnock is the most vulnerable Democrat in the Senate. Do you have any information about why Republican leaders wanted Walker to run against Warnock, other than he is Black and well known in Georgia? I realize the GOP abandoned its emphasis on family values because Trump made that untenable. But Walker, in my opinion, is a terrible choice because…he put a gun to his wife’s head and threatened to kill her! Walker has not denied this and, instead, said he doesn’t remember it. As you know, there are many negative things in Walker’s past and he’s competing with Trump on the number of lies he tells. Anyway, It would be great to read more information about how Walker came to be the Republican candidate and whether he was vetted.


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      Greenknight

      It'll be interesting to see if Walker actually debates Warnock in the fall or avoids any debates the way he did during the primaries.

      Is this the new Republican election strategy? "We ain't gonna tell you what we're for! Just vote for us anyway."

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    Mike B

    Somewhat off topic, but I learned from the Remnant that "croakano" does not rhyme with "volcano", but rather with Kokomo. So from now on, whenever I see "holy croakano", in my head the Beach Boys will be singing "Aruba, Jamaica, oh I want to take ya, ... Key Largo, Montego, baby why don't we go down to Kokomo. We'll get there fast and then we'll take it slow..."

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