There’s something wrong with Lauren Boebert

When House members are looking to get reelected, they typically try to align themselves with the politics of their district. It seems obvious enough, but sometimes we forget that each House member is elected by a specific district with a specific political makeup. If you’re a House Republican and your district is mostly far right anti-government extremists, you’d want to pander to that group.

But Lauren Boebert is in a different situation. She spent her first term behaving like an unhinged far right extremist, and as a result she only won reelection by 538 votes. In other words her district, despite being rated Republican+7 by the experts, is plenty inclined to replace a lunatic Republican with a reasonable Democrat.

Yet Boebert hasn’t gotten the message, because she’s saying things like this:

Boebert has seen that her House district isn’t nearly extreme enough to want her identifying and behaving like this. Yet she’s still doing it. That’s just weird. It’s almost like she’s trying to lose. Meanwhile her 2024 Democratic challenger Adam Frisch is already laying the groundwork to defeat her.

Bill Palmer

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