{"id":1514383,"date":"2022-06-14T05:19:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T09:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1514383"},"modified":"2022-06-14T05:19:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T09:19:12","slug":"the-naked-jan-6-political-calculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-naked-jan-6-political-calculation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Naked Jan. 6 Political Calculation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-naked-jan-6-political-calculation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1514383&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>As the Jan. 6 hearings roll on, we are awash in professions of Democrats&#8217; deep concern for the health of our democracy. Committee chairman Bennie Thompson (D., Miss.) kicked things off on Thursday talking about the &#8220;domestic enemies of the Constitution&#8221; who &#8220;put two and a half centuries of constitutional democracy at risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s puzzling that Democrats are shelling out millions of dollars to help some of those very people secure a spot on the ballot in the upcoming midterm elections. You got that right: The same folks droning on about the existential danger of former President Donald Trump are boosting some of his most fervent supporters\u2014in a couple of cases, men who literally marched on the Capitol on Jan. 6\u2014because they think it&#8217;ll help Democrats in November.<\/p>\n<p>In Pennsylvania, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee, Josh Shapiro, spent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/22\/us\/politics\/josh-shapiro-mastriano-pennsylvania.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more money on a single ad<\/a> boosting one of the Republican candidates, Doug Mastriano, than Mastriano&#8217;s entire television budget. Mastriano, of course, spent thousands of dollars in campaign funds to bus supporters to the &#8220;Stop the Steal&#8221; rally. He is now the GOP gubernatorial nominee, and while the Republican Governors Association hasn&#8217;t endorsed him, the Democrats are all in.<\/p>\n<p>Out in Colorado, Democrats are boosting nutjobs in the Republican Senate and gubernatorial primaries. A Democratic super PAC spent $800,000 in a single week to buoy state representative and Senate candidate Ron Hanks, another diehard Donald Trump fan who showed up for the former president&#8217;s last stand at the Ellipse. Hanks, who would face off against Sen. Michael Bennet (D.), also supports a blanket ban on abortion, so remember that the next time you hear a hysterical Democrat on the airwaves.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the Centennial State, Democrats have reserved $1.5 million in airtime to boost a local mayor and 2020 election conspiracy theorist, Greg Lopez, in the Republican gubernatorial primary. Lopez <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradotimesrecorder.com\/2021\/12\/gop-candidate-for-co-gov-explains-his-support-for-mesa-county-clerk-his-belief-that-the-truth-about-prez-election-may-never-be-known\/41691\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">doesn&#8217;t think<\/a> we&#8217;ll ever know who won that election: &#8220;I mean, people are still questioning and debating what happened with the Kennedy assassination, what happened with other major situations, right?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This strategy has backfired as recently as 2016, when Hillary Clinton and her allies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2016\/11\/hillary-clinton-2016-donald-trump-214428\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sought to bolster<\/a> Trump in the primary. (Adviser Neera Tanden rejoices over how &#8220;easy&#8221; it would be for Hillary to defeat him.)<\/p>\n<p>Democrats should be\u00a0careful what they wish for \u2014 and, in the meantime, spare us their primetime pablum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Jan. 6 hearings roll on, we are awash in professions of Democrats&#8217; deep concern for the health of our democracy. 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