Republican/Trump extremists are experts at doing things that will backfire against them.

[fightforfreedom]

Banning books, that will backfire. Camara's in the classroom, that will backfire. Banning abortion, that will definitely backfire. It looks like gerrymandering is starting to backfire against them. Storming the capital backfired. Trying to rig the election backfired.

What else, being against vaccines, mask wearing has backfired, they are dying by the thousands. The statement The RNC released about the attack on the capital backfired the moment it was released. How stupid was that?

Extremists can have some success in the short term, in the long term they kick the shit out of themselves because they are stupid and wrong.

[Walleye]

1. I think restricting mail-in voting will backfire. And making it harder to register

[fightforfreedom]

3. Yes, the examples are endless.

The more extreme they become, the harder it will backfire against them.

[NJCher]

2. on one of my first successful campaigns for a city ordinance

I worked with a woman who had an instinct about how to get bills through. She told me that wherever we spoke, whatever we did, we needed to appear moderate. At the time, what we were promoting was not seen as moderate: it was seen as extremist. That made our approach doubly important.

I agreed with her and consequently we appeared as moderates but our adversaries took the extremist approach. I am referring to communications, particularly in speaking before the city council and in public to citizens.

We won and not only did we win that battle, we were recognized as a model for citizen interaction with town government by a Rutgers University study.

[TlalocW]

4. There're so many examples

My favorite was when Obamacare was being debated, and the republicans thought they had a winner by insisting that congress and their staff have to use the exchanges instead of government health care. They thought the democrats wouldn't go for it, and they would have a, "See, even the democrats don't want to use Obamacare," but they said, "Hey, great idea." It passed, and suddenly congressional staff could get healthcare plans that covered abortion.

TlalocW

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

5. I've been saying all along...

they keep overplaying their hand. Again and again they try to outdo one another in how outrageous they can be. I think some of it is trying to impress their Cheeto Jesus. You'd think a casual perusal of his history would show them he has lost on everything he ever attempted. He has been bailed out his whole life and now here they are bailing him out politically. It won't work. They will fail. They are going down!