It’s because establishment Democrats are just as bought as Republicans, and the oligarchs are currently more interested in establishing fascism than maintaining detente between the two parties.

This is not an issue of one man being an idiot. This is rot manifesting itself all over.

No joke, I saw a "Democrats for Mike Rogers" sign on someone's lawn yesterday.

The sign might as well have said "I pretend to care a little more than Republicans but I'm still a racist piece of shit"

It used to be that politicians wrote articles for newspapers in order to communicate with the wider public. This practice has been obsoleted by radio somewhat but definitely by video and TV. Which is why I think it's odd for a "politics" comm to ban video, and focus on "only articles", since that way it's not really possible to post what the politicians are saying directly but only filtered through someone elses article.

It's Iowa, he's not going to win anyway.

He's an idiot who can't read the room, and shouldn't be running as a democrat and should lose all his endorsements for this.

But he didn't have a chance in hell of winning anyway, and this reeks of a spoiler campaign like a fetterman or a manchin

Because it was still the view of many of the people who would have called themselves Republicans in say 2010 but realized Trump wasn't good for the country or left the party for other reasons. They didn't just disappear, they joined the only other viable party and helped to shift it further right. Like when Desantis won Florida Governor in 2022, he won against then Democrat candidate Charlie Christ, whom was the Republican governor of Florida from 2007-2011. Christ didn't change all of his views, his views were suddenly just left of MAGA, but still right of where Democrats were in 2006