Dems don't *act* as though MAGA is a threat

What does this tell us? One, Democrats are utterly insincere in their efforts to claim that they are truly worried that Trump and “MAGA Republicans” are an existential threat to the Republic. That’s exactly why Joe Biden can’t even keep straight the difference between MAGA Republicans and the rest of the party: because he doesn’t really think the post January 6 Trump faction of the party is a real threat, so he is more interested in partisan point-scoring against Republicans as a whole. Two, and relatedly, leading Democrats, in their bones, do not regard what Trump did after the 2020 election as out of bounds.

Given their long track record of attacking the legitimacy of elections they lose, top Democrats simply see this as how the game is played and could picture themselves doing the same thing if the roles were reversed. To me, that’s what, say, Josh Shapiro is saying by spending more money on TV ads to help Doug Mastriano than Mastriano himself spent, or what J. B. Pritzker is saying by doing the same for Darren Bailey: This is all just an accepted part of the game. It’s normal. They’d do it themselves. And if some of these Republicans win their races on the strength of the national environment, well, it was worth it just to elect a few more Democrats than would otherwise have won.