I’m from Tennessee also.
The squishes win because when a real conservative runs the squishes convince a second conservative to also run that splits the conservative vote and thus the moderate gets the highest number of votes.
Doesn’t always happen (see Marsha Blackburn) but I have seen it happen too many times.
I still do not understand why Collins was still in the general election. Why wasn’t there only one Republican in each of the two races in the general election? Wasn’t there a primary election in Georgia? The number of things that had to be unusual happening in Georgia that have lead to this horrible situation is astounding.