BECAUSE DEMOCRATS ARE MORE CONSERVATIVE THAN DONALD:

Pelosi wants to make sure that conservative voters who turned their backs on the Trumpist Republican Party are not going to have second thoughts. For example, there's the distinct possibility that some of them will be repelled by the thought that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the other Democrats who share her extreme leftist views will have an impact on the Biden administration. Those voters will be repulsed by the way that politically correct culture and identity politics is taking hold over the Democratic Party.

Pelosi hopes that the upcoming Senate impeachment trial, which will showcase Trump's controversial behavior and conduct in office will be examined and re-examined by conservative voters 24/7. Perhaps they will not like everything the Democrats say and do though. Perhaps they will return to their old political home, especially if Biden moves in a centrist direction and their fellow Republicans continue to cling to the ghost of Trump.

In a way, Pelosi's strategy also applies pressure on McConnell and other Republican leaders who may be forced to choose between maintaining the support of Trump's electoral base, which consists of conspiracy theorists who engaged in an orgy of violence and destruction in America's citadel of democracy, and trying to rebuild the party as a big political tent that old Reaganites could call their home.

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