Threats and Name-Calling: The Democrats’ Midterm Strategy
A scorched-earth national campaign is likely to burn down the Democrat Party instead of its intended victims.
by Scott McKay
April 12, 2022, 12:53 AM
Call me crazy, but I’m just not sure this is what the American electorate is looking for in this fall’s midterm congressional elections…
MSNBC analyst John Heilemann revealed a “dark” strategy Democrats are considering using to curb potential losses during the November midterm elections on “Deadline: White House” Tuesday.
Heilemann said inflation is “psychologically the most devastating thing politically” and said the key to mitigating losses, according to the strategy, was to make Donald Trump the face of the Republican Party and then harangue attacks against him as an undemocratic force in U.S. politics.
“They have to scare the crap out of [the Democratic base] and get them to come out,” Heilemann said. “[The Democrats] can’t motivate them on the basis of hope or their pocketbooks or any of these accomplishments. They have to scare the crap out of them.”
“The strategy that people are kind of thinking about now … is we’re going to have these [Jan. 6] committee hearings. Donald Trump’s going to be in the spotlight … Let’s take Donald Trump, take that [Jan. 6] committee, the threat he poses to democracy, make [Trump] … the face of the Republican Party, talk about Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Madison Cawthorn. Say this party is crazy town, it’s Trumpist [and that] Trump is a threat to our democracy,” he continued. “Democrats are thinking about what kind of strategy could incorporate those events in a way that would maybe at least point towards a path to limit losses, if not hold on to the house.”
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