WTH Can’t Democrats Quit Trump? The WSJ’s Barton Swaim Explains

Joe Biden and the Democratic Party love labeling Donald Trump and
his MAGA followers as the greatest threat to American democracy.
So why are Democratic-aligned Super PACs funding self-declared
MAGA candidates in GOP primaries? In a recent article for the
Wall Street Journal, Barton Swaim explains that there are two
reasons: The strategy has (so far) helped Democrats win in
general elections; more importantly, Democrats long for a time
when they were part of the heroic resistance against Trump. But
this strategy could backfire: Democratic lawfare against Trump is
helping him win over voters who think “the system” is rigged
against them. And the moment a Democrat-funded MAGA candidate
wins a general election, their warnings about MAGA’s threat to
democracy will fall flat on its face.


Barton Swaim joined the Wall Street Journal as an editorial page
writer in 2018. He writes a regular column on political books.
Before joining the Journal, he was an opinion editor at the
Weekly Standard. He is the author of The Speechwriter: A Brief
Education in Politics (Simon and Schuster, 2016).


Read the transcript here.


Read Barton's article Why Democrats Can’t Quit Trump here.