In politics, you’ll always get as good as you give. Whatever you mete out to the other guys will come back to you. A wise political party will not deploy tactics it wouldn’t want its political opponents to adopt for themselves because the terms of engagement are universal.
The Democratic Party has not been so wise. Since at least the early 2010s, Democratic politicians and their allies have greenlit clever campaigns aimed at manipulating Republican voters into behaving in ways that ultimately redounded to Democrats’ benefit. Sometimes, the practice has worked out great for Democrats. At other times, not so much. But Democrats now seem to have convinced themselves that the GOP’s effort to play that same game is dirty pool. At least, that’s the impression conveyed by a New York Times report on the Trump campaign’s efforts to undermine Democratic support for Joe Biden through a variety of loosely proximate affiliated groups.
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