It’s always amusing watching the sheer lengths those on the right will twist and contort themselves to in a desperate attempt to avoid being held accountable for their own beliefs. But then again, what else can one expect from people dumb enough to try and claim a political party which tried to murder every last communist they could was “on the left”
It’s also rather telling that even back in the “Obama years” Democrats had already realized that Republicans would double, triple and quadruple down on white nationalism and hatred of minorities rather than appealing to them. THAT— not some idiotic plot conservatives invented to try and excuse their hatreds— was what might produced a “permanent democratic majority”.
But expecting honesty and self accountability from the right is like expecting a fish to dance the tango. It just ain’t going to happen.