“Vote For Me Or Go To Hell!”

Politics is now defined by who you hate and who hates you back. And that phenomenon helps keep Trump - who helped fuel that phenomenon - at the top. https://t.co/fFVsvSFITd

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 29, 2023

I think this is definitely true of the GOP, and I see echoes of it in-line by Democrats (those who hunt dragons become dragons themselves).

But I don’t think it’s why Biden is going to win re-election and Democrats may re-take control of Congress. Because I think this sentiment is very strongly one-sided in our politics.

Trump wants to target Republicans opposed to impeaching Biden with MAGA challengers: reporthttps://t.co/6XNODvEKsT

— Raw Story (@RawStory) August 30, 2023

That’s gonna work out real well for ‘em.

Many of the impeachment-skeptical Republicans hail from districts that were won in 2020 by President Joe Biden, which means that primarying them with hardline MAGA candidates would likely doom the party's chances of holding those seats in 2024, thus ending McCarthy's term as Speaker of the House after just two years.

"Vote for me or go to hell!” is not the voter outreach campaign that wins elections.