Why can’t the Democrats react in kind? It is because there is no real notion of closing ranks on their side. No acceleration to the finish line. Rather there is more of a back scratching going on where each interest group supports the others, not because they care about all these causes but because they want their own cause seen to. Each act must simply act harder to convince those in the tent watching that they should not leave. (There are true liberal ideologues of course, but they are relatively few on the Democrat side.)
Tim Andersen, Ph.D.