The GOP Got Loomered

 Last night the hated 'harpy of the DNC' Debbie Wasserman Schultz won her re-election easily in the South Florida primary despite, yet again, the forces of Bernitude arrayed against her like a massive ancient army all of whom forgot to bring their spears or something.

Further north political crazy lady Laura Loomer won her primary becoming the republican to advance (and, boy do we hope) lose in a landslide (it's a pretty safe Dem district).

So All Is Right With The World.

What Does This Tell Us?

It tells us that, yet again, we have a data-point that suggests that the Democratic party is sane and the Republican party, in technical terms, is bat-shit. Yes, yes, The Omnivore knows all about the both-sides nonsense that conservatives like to throw out there ("Libtards believe in RUSSIAN COLLUSION!! CAN U IMAGINE!??" . . . yesterday the released Mueller documents show, yeah, more Russian-Trump-Team interaction . . . The Omnivore can certainly imagine).

On the other side? Laura Loomer's claim to fame was being kicked off of Twitter and then, in a stunt, chaining herself to the doors of the Twitter office demanding to get her account back--while wearing a yellow star.

It's also being really anti-Muslim:

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It's not like her GOP voters didn't know about any of this stuff. No--they like it. It's a feature. Compare to the big hug the Q-Anon candidate Majorie Greene got from congress and Trump? It's a feature to their base voters. It's widespread and pretty consistent.

JV Last of The Bulwark writes something almost identical here:

There are a lot well-meaning conservatives and Republicans who believe that the aftermath of Trump will be a period of intellectual ferment and so they are committed to staying engaged with these two overlapping movements in order to be part of the reform, or tend to the green shoots, or whatever.

We talked about this notion last week.

There are a couple problems with this view of the world. The biggest one is the voters.

Yeah. The voters are the problem.

Meanwhile On the Left

Debbie Wasserman Schultz wasn't a great DNC chair. In fact, she wasn't even a good one--and her ouster in the wake of the Podesta email reveal was a reasonable show of respect for an enraged left (in 2016). But that's not how they see it. Here's how they see it:

1. "Debbie FIXED the nomination. The Emails SHOW IT! 100%"
2.  . . . where in the emails does it show her fixing the nomination?
3. "IT'S IMPLIED!"
4.  . . . 
5. "LOOK AT THIS COURT CASE FOR FIXING THE ELECTION THAT A JUDGE THREW OUT BECAUSE EVEN IF THEY DID FIX THE ELECTION IT'S NOT A CRIME!?? THAT PROVES IT!!"

This morning, this was a verbatim conversation with a Bernout and it's pretty similar to every other conversation about the 2016 primary getting fixed: It's a conspiracy theory. Debbie Downer didn't LIKE St. Bernard--but she didn't alter the votes or close polling places or anything else to make him lose.

No, he lost organically. Twice now.

So it's conspiracy theory. Unlike Loomer's base who loves that shit, the Debbie-Hate wasn't flying with South Florida Democrat voters and her progressive competitors got crushed.

Both sides, right?