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Why Democrats Are Advertising For (Certain) Republicans, And Why They Should Really Stop
“Biden-Cheney 2024?” was the headline to a New York Times column written by Thomas Friedman and published on 1/11/2022. Although, in the actual column, Friedman makes it clear he’s not married to this deal specifically, just some ticket that’s half Republican and half Democrat:
Friedman bases this off of a premise I do not find flawed: The Republican Party is currently overrun by insane people, and moderate Republicans should leave the party and form a coalition with the Democrats. It’s not a terrible idea, but it falls apart because of one major flaw: We don’t need the Republicans in order to win elections.
Joe Biden won more votes than any other Presidential candidate in United States history, Donald Trump lost the popular vote twice. When Donald Trump lost the Presidential Election, he cost his own party the majority through turning Georgia’s run-off Senate election into nothing more than a chance for him to spread his election fraud nonsense. Donald Trump also cost his party the majority in the House of Representatives two years before…
