Dems need to go at her, hard. If they don’t kick her out, then shine the world’s biggest light on her. Make every Republican defend every terrible thing she’s done. Make her the face of the Republican Party. I don’t think she’ll play well nationally, and she’s sure to say something fucking stupid to make it worse if you keep up the pressure.
That won’t play well nationally with the Republican Party. They’ll have to choose between cutting her legs out from underneath her or allowing what’s likely a very unpopular figure risk their national election prospects. That may make her more popular, but she’s insignificant in the long run. The real battle is against the Republican Party, not her.
Honestly, the ideal outcome would be for a middle of sorts. Have MTG become the face of the Republican Party, leverage that into election victories that expand majorities and take back state legislatures/governorships, which will destroy her.
I honestly hope that you’re right but I don’t see it.
Republicans will just avoid the questions or do what Mitch did, vaguely disavowing the ideas without ever abandoning the person. “Make her the face of the Republican party” feels like the exact things folks were saying during the Republican primaries in 2016, surely once people see how awful Donald Trump is they won’t vote for him!
I think we’ve learned pretty conclusively that deplatforming matters, and I don’t think any of this criticism matters unless she loses her platform of “sitting US congressperson” ASAP.
That’s fair, but I’d argue that Trump is the exception and not the rule. MTG is a sycophant, not capable of inspiring millions to follow her. She’s just relatively kind of hot and can siphon off some ‘ah tahs’ from Trump’s power.
Making her the face of the Republican Party shouldn’t be meant to get people to leave the party, but to keep the Democratic coalition activated. Fear of her as the new and crazier version of Trump can keep us united.
Target her the way Republicans target the Squad. To be honest, I’m not above finding suitably subtle ways to appeal to misogyny against her if I think that wins elections for Democrats.
It doesn’t really have to be her. The point is that you should train people to hate Republicans and it’s easier to get people to hate Republicans with an Emmanuel Goldstein figure to focus their hate on. MTG seems like a convenient tool to use as a focus for hate.
MTG’s crazy ass views are widespread among the GOP base. They believe the same things and are happy that one of them is representing them. People with these views are not some fringe minority in the GOP. They are at worst a plurality.
Local sports show I listen to had a segment on that recently. There is also a SEC network commentator that listens to the show and tries to throw in references to the show here and there…
In general elections I think you get more bang for your buck by turning out your base than you do by trying to go after moderates and undecides. Her kind turns out the base.
Sure but it will hurt them big time with independents and swing voters just like it did with Trump. We really just need to ignore the GOP base and win everything else. They will always vote Republican no matter what
I think it will hurt them exactly one cycle. They need to go through the primaries where several loonies in. A few will make it through like MTG but I think (hope?) the enough will get upset by Ds that the net will be a loss of R seats in those districts. I suspect it will be especially true in the Senate.
If it proves to be a losing national strategy, then I think the tide will turn. The trumps being tied up legally in NY would help tremendously.
I think these morons will eventually grow tired without success. Hopefully some real charges and prison sentences will wake up the doofus part of the 1/6 crowd that provide cover for the serious actors. They need the rubes. 50 militia out in the open isn’t nearly as effective as 50 inside a crowd of a thousand.
I think it does turn out the base. QAnon Conspiratards are the base now. Mitch needs to maintain a respectability facade so he can continue to negotiate in bad faith with eDem dupes and run out the clock to 2022.
