Seattle just elected a Republican city attorney. This is a similar phenomenon.
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This makes the opposite point than the one you are trying to make. The dems in their own primary (the base) elected a socialist, while the wider public (independents) voted in a centrist.
The Democrats are so socialist that... they elected
their defeated liberal primary candidate through a write-in
campaign over a socialist that had won their nomination.