Yes, but while the elected Democrats have stupid _members_, the party does not actually make stupid stands on things and back them up with stupid statements.
The Democrats do not have some sort of political position that troops in Guam are a bad idea, despite the fact that Guam troops are popular, so the Democrats do not have the need to run around telling people via MSNBC that Guam will tip over, or that landsharks walking around on Guam will eat them, or that Guam itself is a myth.
No, the Democrats apparently just elected a single fucking moron.
Which _sounds_ bad, but it's a fuckton better than having an entire political party taking unpopular political positions and making up nonsense to explain those positions, hoping that their propaganda outfit posing as a cable news network will convince enough people to get them reelected.
Incidentally, Hank Johnson claims he was basically making a metaphorical joke, and his other questions seem to indication he was rather worried about the environmental impart of raising the tiny island of Guam's population by such a large amount all at once. If he'd actually had concerns about the island tipping over, you'd think he'd need a bit more reassurances than 'We don't anticipate that' with no explanation as to _why_ they don't.
I mean, obviously the military didn't 'anticipate' the island tipping over. I don't mean 'obviously' in the sense 'islands don't tip over', I mean even if islands did tip over, the military wouldn't ask to move somewhere where they thought the island would tip over! Duh. Of course the military doesn't 'anticipate' it, that answer does not, in anyway, answer the question Hank Johnson was supposedly asking about the _risk_ of it doing so.
People are so busy assuming he meant that seriously that they have completely ignored the context. Imagine that in a context where the problem could actually happen, which would make Hank Johnson's exchange _incredibly fucking stupid_ sounding. Military: We're sending in a covert team to Russia to do X. Hank Johnson: But what if Russia catches them? Military: We don't anticipate that happening. Hank Johnson: Well, I guess the military thinking something won't happen is a good enough non-answer to quailed my concerns! Let's talk about something else!
In the real world, someone _actually_ concerned would have said something like 'And what exactly do you mean by that? Do you mean the odds of it happening are very very low, or do you mean that the military literally has no plans if it does happening? Assuming you mean the first thing, why do you think it won't happen? Has the military even considered it?'
That is the sort of reply that Hank Johnson would have made if he _actually_ thought there was a risk of Guam tipping over. So this looks less like an actual question and more like a dumb joke that person he was talking to didn't get so he just moved on. There are actual instances of Democrats saying actual dumb things, I just don't really think this is one.
However, my point is, even if you actually think he's dumb enough to think the island could tip over, that sort of thought from a single congressman is not the same as the entire Republican party running around repeating dumb things, in concert, that they know are untrue, to confuse low-information voters.