The results from Iowa and the anticipated results from New Hampshire indicate that the motivated voters for both parties are masochists.

This has been obvious among the GOP, whose voters have chosen the path of most resistance by backing former President Donald Trump. Trump rolled over for health bureaucrats and the “Swamp” he railed against in speeches, lost to President Joe Biden, presided over the GOP losing control of both houses of Congress (which he directly contributed to), and is electorally toxic now — even before he likely ends up convicted of any of the alleged crimes for which he has been indicted.

Despite all of this, GOP voters in Iowa went against popular community leaders and their popular GOP governor to give the 77-year-old ex-president a resounding victory, setting the stage for him to sweep the nomination once again despite being the weakest nominee Republicans could put up.

It isn’t just GOP voters who want to make things hard on themselves. Biden is 81 and wildly unpopular, and yet Democrats have no interest in nominating a younger candidate who can complete coherent sentences without a teleprompter. The Democratic masochism is on full display in New Hampshire, where voters are poised to hand Biden a primary victory on Tuesday.

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This is notable because Biden does not recognize the New Hampshire primary as legitimate at all. The Democratic National Committee is not sanctioning New Hampshire’s primary because the state refused to move back in the primary order. The DNC thinks New Hampshire voters are too white to matter, and Biden agrees, refusing to participate in the primary. And yet New Hampshire Democrats are orchestrating a write-in campaign to give Biden a symbolic victory (with no delegates included) because that is just how committed they are to the unpopular 81-year-old party leader.

For all the talk that most people do not want a 2020 rematch, the most dedicated and motivated voters in both parties do. They are both all-in on their old, unpopular candidates, both of whom are littered with red flags that show just how much the swing voters who decide elections hate them. Whichever party loses in 2024 will have brought that loss on themselves because voters in both parties decided they wanted to make this election more difficult for themselves than it ever had to be.