Michigan’s G.O.P. primary wasn’t the only one in which Democratic Party entities or candidates spent money in an attempt to secure the Republican nomination for a truly extreme candidate.
Meijer didn’t even get to the governor’s race in Arizona, where the state’s Democratic Party put out statements in an apparent attempt to undermine the less extreme candidate, Karrin Taylor Robson, who had been endorsed by Mike Pence, for the presumed benefit of Kari Lake, who has said that Arizona should “” its 2020 election results. At a rally in late July, Lake said, “President Trump taught us how to fight, and I took a few notes!” As of Wednesday afternoon, the race was too close to call.
And plenty of election deniers have won primary races across the country, on Tuesday and in earlier primaries, without any help from Democrats. All three of the leading candidates for the Republican nomination for Missouri’s open Senate seat were thorough Trumpists; the day before the primary, the former President announced that he was endorsing “Eric,” a name that two of the candidates shared.
Voters may tire of it, too—another risk for Democrats. If, when surveying the strange shape of the G.O.P. field, with its collection of the extreme, the improbable, and the outlandish, Democrats sound gleeful rather than dismayed or alarmed, voters’ faith in their seriousness could be diminished. They could come across as hypocrites and fakes, at a time when voters say they are looking for authenticity.
Why have some of the Democratic Party’s most prominent campaign organizations—the D.C.C.C., the D.G.A.—pursued such a terrible approach in these races? The fear for democracy’s future is real. But they or their political consultants may have become too enraptured by the idea of their own cleverness or toughness. Another explanation is that there is just too much money in politics these days chasing too few good ideas. Bad schemes get funded, too.
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