"Aren't there ANY RATs who aren't part of the lunatic fringe?"
No, it seems like there really aren't any more. This is a party who took the extraordinarily unserious propagandist Michael Moore as their Aquinas, that's how bad it really is for them.
And to this day they continue to blame their losses on fraud and trickery, they seem unwilling to once even consider that maybe the problem is their message, or lack of message. It is like they are stupid enough to believe their own flattering press. And it just all, taken together, convinces one that they are too STUPID to run the country.
I certainly hope they keep it up.
The problem is not so much stupidity, as it is sheer incompetence.
Most Democrats have never served is a command position in a theater of war, so they have little or no comprehension of what a military force is really supposed to do. For that matter, very few Republicans today have served in any meaningful way in any of the armed services, but many, if not most have some appreciation for the application of military power. More importantly, that the military power is only an extension of diplomacy, the iron hand in the velvet glove, backing up the brokered deal between nations, not its substitute when negotiations fail. And as such, the military must be at an ever-ready state to remind the representatives of foreign governments that we mean to hold them to their promises.
Democrats have accepted promises from foreign governments at face value, and are inevitably distressed when the other side won't "play by the rules". The response for the Democrats is then to say, "OK, we will change to rules so you won't HAVE to be punished for not obeying them before."
And they end up distressed and disappointed once again, as they retreat further and further.
One day, there is no place to which retreat is any longer possible.