Yes, we should all understand. The Democrats do GOTV, get low-motivated people to do the minimum work, namely “sign a request for a ballot”, and later “mark a few boxes and sign an envelope”. The GOTV does the rest, they get the applications, they call repeatedly to make sure people who claimed they would vote democrat have filled out the paper and mailed it.
Meanwhile, Trump tells the GOP voters to come out on election day. Low-motivated people who might vote republican won’t bother, more motivated people might have car trouble, or be sick, or work late, or the lines are too long.
The GOP needs to embrace mail voting and early voting, until we can eliminate it. Rather than fighting it, we should propose safeguards to keep postal workers and others from playing with the mail. We should do ballot harvesting wherever the democrats have made it legal. We should hit every senior home and assisted living center. we should get employees placed there. If they are allowed, they should help eery senior vote republcian. If they are not, they should report other workers breaking the law for democrats.
We can keep pretending that “ED” is the best, but it doesn’t work in an environment where the other side can get their voters with 10 minutes of total effort, while we keep asking ours to do 2-3 hours of work on a single day.