“WTF?”
I hear you, and it’s so alien to us, but this is what he’s doing: He is PLAYING OFFENSE. The Dems are great at it, but our side only does it in very rare cases.
You nailed it. The Marxist Dems are on the offense all the time and have very strong party discipline. The Republicans rarely stick together and can't sustain the effort long. They have weak party discipline when they have any. Example, Liz Cheney has joined Pelosi's kangaroo Jan 6 special committee. She should have been stripped of all committee assignments and perks and booted out of the GOP caucus. She wasn't.