Radical Republicans have been "throwing spaghetti" at the wall recently to try and prevent a sizable loss at the ballot box during the midterm elections, and one analyst says this tactic reveals just how "deeply unpopular" the party is with Americans.

Heather Cox Richardson, a historian and author, joined Tim Miller on "The Bulwark Podcast" on Wednesday to discuss how MAGA has tried to shift the narrative away from their attempts to take away constitutional rights. For example, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has cancelled at least six visas of foreign nationals because of their comments about conservative activist Charlie Kirk's death.

A federal court also ruled that the Trump administration violated Harvard University's free speech rights when it attempted to condition federal grant funding on adopting certain diversity and campus antisemitism policies.

"I don't think the radical Republicans would be trying to take away rights to the degree they are if they thought they could win," Richardson said. "And the fact that they are throwing all the spaghetti at the wall says they know how deeply unpopular they are."

One recent example that Richardson noted is the effort to overturn the Voting Rights Act. There is a case before the Supreme Court called Louisiana v. Callais that could determine whether race-based tests to determine fair access to the ballot box are constitutional.

Richardson said this is reminiscent of when the Reagan administration began to pack the courts with right-wing justices during the 1980s to protect its signature tax cuts from being overturned by a Democratic Congress. The Reagan administration also started to claim that Democrats could only win by committing voter fraud, a claim that President Donald Trump repeats today.