” but now they’re all trying to out-stupid the others so they won’t actually win.”
If you view them from the standpoint of a reasonable, sane person, then that observation holds. But I think the simpler answer is these people are so cloistered with others of like mind that their “center” has been reset to just left of Karl Marx. In their crowd, they really represent the “average.”
Here is a slightly different view from a “left of center” liberal I watch named Tim Pool. (No, I am not Tim Pool.) I like him because he’s the kind of Democrat my dad was. You can argue, disagree and he will still respect you. (I didn’t know there were any left.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoKFIEjwyEY
He’s also extremely long winded.