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The Democrats’ New Strategy: Pretend to Not Be Democrats

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Senator Cory Booker takes a selfie with Democratic candidate for the House of Representatives Adelita Grijalva after The People’s Town Hall with Senator Mark Kelly and Representative Greg Stanton in Tucson, Ariz., April 13, 2025.

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All’s fair in love, war, and politics, as they say. But there comes a point at which surreptitious deceptions in the effort to confuse and beguile voters say more about you than your opponents or even the voters you’re attempting to hoodwink.

“Democratic strategists in recent months approached officials at the party’s main Senate super PAC to discuss a bank-shot idea for flipping control of the Senate,” The Bulwark’s Lauren Egan reported this week. One of those ideas includes “quietly backing independent candidates in traditionally Republican states.”

Noah Rothman

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Noah Rothman

Noah Rothman is a senior writer at National Review. His third book, Blood and Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence, was published by Hachette in May 2026.

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