Vote cutters work both ways.

"Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the US has assumed huge significance amid global economic and geopolitical headwinds. The White House is pulling out all the stops to welcome Mr Modi - it's a state visit, the highest level of diplomatic protocol the US accords to visiting leaders." BBC. "The US has long viewed India as a counterbalance to China, but Delhi has never been fully comfortable with owning that tag." But, "India's diplomacy has been getting more assertive about saying that this is the country's moment on the global stage." China has noticed. Wang Yi, China's former Foreign Minister, said, "As feared by many Indian elites, Washington's vigorous efforts to strengthen economic and trade cooperation with India is primarily to slow down China's economic development. However, this geopolitical calculation of the US is doomed to fail, because China's position in the global supply chain cannot be replaced by India or other economies." BT. India has not forgotten the cowardly, unprovoked murder of 20 Indian soldiers by Chinese thugs in uniform on 18 June 2020 at Galwan Valley in Ladakh. ET. Had the Chinese not been such uncivilized barbarians India would have no need for defense cooperation with the US. "This visit seems to have split America's Democratic Party system into two. One part, to which president Joe Biden belongs and which sent out the invitation to Prime Minister Modi," and, "The other part, the far-Left strain among Democrats which wields considerable influence in media, academia, social sector and the deep state," wrote Abhijit Majumder. "This network of global Left and anti-nationalists carved out of radical Dems and UK's Labour and funded by chaos entrepreneurs like George Soros have long been in bed with Islamists." Former President Donald Trump was made to lose the 2020 election "not by 'in the face' criminality-like outright hacking of voting machines, but what can be better described as 'death by thousand cuts'," wrote Satya Dosapati. "Word is that there are about 220 to 240 Lok Sabha seats identified across the country where there is tacit agreement among Opposition parties to field only one strong candidate with a sprinkling of weak candidates from the rest of the Opposition parties." That has been happening in India for decades. These dummy candidates are known as 'vote cutters'. "By definition a vote-cutter party or candidate is installed by a more dominant player in constituencies where it wants to cut through the voter base of its competing player," wrote Prabal. Did Modi's party, the BJP, benefit from vote cutting by the AIMIM party in Bihar? Quint. Did the BJP win a record-breaking victory in Gujarat assembly election because the AAP acted as a vote cutter? DH. Ralph Nader is still blamed by Democrats for acting as a 'spoiler' in 2000 which resulted in a victory for George Bush. Washingtonian. The problem is not that Modi is popular. The problem is that his base is a bunch of paranoid fanatics who will not tolerate any criticism. That is fascism. Britannica.