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Legit question: in the face of all those disastrous town halls, why do they keep making them ?
Signed, confused canadian.
Republicans have been told by their leadership that they shouldn't do town halls, but then their opponents talk about how cowardly they are for not standing up for the extremely unpopular policies they support, so some are trying them anyway, always with disastrous results. What else are they supposed to do? They are running for reelection, and their Democratic opponents aren't afraid to face the angry crowds and agree with them, and whip theminto a bigger frenzy.
Now established Democratic congress reps are even doing townhalls in Republican districts, just to face the voters, and show Democratic courage and integrity, and ask questions like "Where is your elected Republican rep? Why cant he face you? Why cant he defend his actions and the actions of his party? Why would you support such a coward? Why is a Democrat willing to face a Republican crowd, when a Republican wont?"
The situation is set for a classic mid-term majority flip, like 2010, which is why the MAGA Nazis wont allow an election to take place. They cant allow the Dems to take either chamber, or they will control the investigative committees. By next summer, violent protests, instigated by RedHats and law enforcement, will give HitlerPig the excuse to declare Martial Law, and suspend elections.
The one thing we have going for us that might make a difference in the fact that the administration of elections is up to the individual states. So there is very little the President can do, on his own. Even the recent Executive Order targeting elections only threatened to stop Federal funding. States can (and will!) fund elections on their own if they have to.
We also have never postponed a Federal election, the date is set by Federal law and it has gone off without a hitch, even through a Civil War and all the wars and pandemics since. So he can declare "Marshall" Law all he wants, but States are free to ignore him and hold elections anyway.
Town halls are a good thing for both parties.
It lets the people talk directly to the person they elected and discuss their feelings and so on. It's also good for the elected officials because it gets them directly in front of their voting base and allows them to campaign in person at all times directly to the people most likely to vote for free.
The reason these are all disastrous is because Republicans don't actually care about listening to what the people want and are just skipping to the campaigning part...
Also worth noting that not holding town halls is a strategy already suggested by the republican parties higher ups and so far it's just led to town halls hosted by democrats instead that are more than willing to tell the most vocal voters why their Republican government has failed them.