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https://www.salon.com/2016/11/09/the-hillary-clinton-campaign-intentionally-created-donald-trump-with-its-pied-piper-strategy/
They did this in 2022 as well.
It never works. They never learn.
Third time is the charm
I know of the 2016 one, but not the 2022 one. What are the details of that?
iirc the DNC funded and encouraged a bunch of extremely racist and fringe GOP 2022 congressional primary candidates in a repeat of the 2016 pied piper strategy
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/07/democrats-boosted-extremists-republican-primaries-was-that-wise
Funnily enough a lot of conservative papers were complaining about it at the time because Trump was seen as toxic in 2022 until Desantis cratered.
I don't think they needed to run it in 2024. Desantis was just that bad lol.