“Republicans tried a version of Trump’s inversion strategy to no avail in the 2018...”
The GOP-e did nothing of the sort.
They hid in their offices afraid of loosing their power.
If anyone in the private sector put so little effort into their job, they would be fired the first month.
NPR and other well funded fake news aka propaganda is so obvious to conservatives. One reason (amongst others) -We are tuned to perceive deception because we read scripture and history. We tend to be cautious and sceptical with the news. Satan is a deceiver and aiming to imprison and shame us: millions are in his trophy cabinet and millions have been ransomed and restored.
I fear for all those millenial undergrads in blue city-states... who is trying to rescue them?