Democrats are really trying to drive the wedge into the Republican party.
They're making Marjorie Taylor Greene, who liked posts suggesting the execution of democrats and suggested wealthy jews started California fires with their space laser, the face of the party. First they put pressure on the republican house leader to remove her from committees. Now, they're going to do it themselves. And, they're basically daring republicans to speak out in her defense.
On the one hand you could cynically say that this is a rather transparent attempt to stoke infighting among the republican party. But, on the other hand, you could say it shouldn't be that fucking hard to say that this woman is batshit crazy. And the fact that Republicans won't outright say that (Mitch McConnell at least made some backhanded comments to that effect) is pretty disturbing.
The Democrats imo are treating the issue like it should be treated. The initial reaction to all of this bullshit (which has been present in the GOP for decades, but not to this loony extent) has been to ignore it for fear that talking about the conspiracy theories would spread them. Now, they've reversed course, putting them front and center and forcing people to take a side. It presents the Democratic party an enemy to unify against.
Meanwhile, they're forcing republicans to walk a tightrope. The conspiracy fringe is so cultish that even the slightest contradiction of their world view makes you a pawn of the child eating comnisatanjewtocrats (see For News' ratings or Mike Pence). At a certain point though (one would hope), the constant appeasement of the deplorables will get to the point where republicans are going to start leaving the party (probably part of the suburban shift that helped save us from 4 more years).
I don't think that the current strategy of trying to walk the tightrope is going to pay off. If they want a future, the GOP has to rip the bandaid off. Denounce the qtards, and spend the next 2-4 year rebranding. The sooner they do it, the better the chance they have of remaining viable.










