Republicans have a big problem: Their Democratic opponents are so crazy, no one believes it when you tell them what they’re actually doing.
In Tablet Magazine’s sweeping survey of the “Democrats’ insanity defense” this election cycle, one doozy stands out: “[A]spects of Democratic governance are simply too insane for voters to find credible, even when they are documented as official U.S. government policy.”
As one GOP staffer working on a competitive Congressional race told the magazine, “When you outline the Democratic agenda, you have to water it down, because in both polling and focus groups, people just don’t believe it.”
Voters “are critical of things like boys in girls’ sports, but they tune out stuff about schools not informing parents about transitioning their children. They just don’t believe it’s true. It can’t be,” he concluded.
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