CPAC: Orban in Texas

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(08-12-2022, 10:03 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: Umm...

Conservatives panelists at CPAC Dallas embraced a new label on Saturday, adopting 'domestic terrorist' as a badge of honor. https://t.co/XGHhHf1T1N

— Chron (@chron) August 8, 2022

 I have to assume GOP political strategists are smarter than I am, but when you look at how they won in 2016 and then watch what they and Trump have done for the past 6 years it makes no sense.

Enough independents bought in on the "Let's see what Trump and this new-look GOP can do" to win in 2016 and then they doubled down and catered to the most insane and devoted part of their voter base and lost the independents and the 2020 election.  They just seem to keep heading down that extreme path and assuming that proudly claiming to be domestic terrorists or Christian nationalists is a good thing and stuff like that will help win back the swing voters.

Or is this just as simple as "liberals say it's bad to be this, so we say it is good to be this and we will loudly claim to be this?"