Why not? Maybe the Democratic Party will see losing an easy layup of an election will make it reconsider its candidates (and their willingness to commit genocide?)
Fairly convinced that they want to lose so they can fundraise and not have to do any actual work. As opposed to their current plan of not doing any work.
It’s this but for politics.
Muller's ratchet (named after Hermann Joseph Muller, by analogy with a ratchet effect) is a process which, in the absence of recombination (especially in an asexual population), results in an accumulation of irreversible deleterious mutations.