Democrats Shouldn’t Tempt Fate By Boosting Crazy Republican Candidates

If reports of Democrats’ midterm election strategy are true, the donkey party wants to get its ass kicked.

Michael Arceneaux
5 min readJun 21, 2022
Photo by Mirah Curzer on Unsplash

After a man too stupid for words managed to not only become President of the United States, but come close to toppling the republic near the end of his first term, somehow, some Democrats still believe it is a good idea to elevate their most ignorant and insane political opponents.

According to a report from the New York Times, select Democrats running in the midterm elections are choosing to elevate far right wing candidates in Republican primaries under the presumption that this will bolster their electoral prospects in the general election later this fall.

One example of this is in a California district in which a Democratic campaign actually bashed Republican Congressman David Valadao for voting to impeach Donald Trump.

Addressing the ad with the paper, Valadao said: “I voted the way I voted because I thought it was important. But to put us in a spot where we’re voting for these things and then try to use it as ammo against us in the campaigns, and put people that they potentially see as a threat to democracy in a position where they can become members of Congress, it…

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Michael Arceneaux

New York Times bestselling author of “I Can’t Date Jesus” and “I Don’t Want To Die Poor.”