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Originally Posted by bots
the republicans were celebrating when Nancy Pelosi's husband got a hammer on the head, so this isn't a one sided phenomena
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I don't think that many people liked Nancy Pelosi on the progressive side either
,... but you're not wrong or anything.
Many democrats have toned down on average imo, but the party is definitely split with certain politicians carefully selecting their language (ie Gavin Newsom) to take advantage of increasing rhetoric, but still have an out.
I suspect it's many more of those in the party itself though that are starting to see it's not helping them at all electorally in the polls to fashion themselves around these figures. So there's a slow change in temperature there as more people seem to accept that there's no road for this to continue if there is any hope for progressive views to remain mainstream politically...
That shouldn't be the primary motivator for determining the strength of rhetoric coming from any party, but that's been the trend. The Democrats have always been generations ahead of Republicans when it came to being communicators, especially the utilization of social media. They've always been better masters at managing their own messaging. But now right-leaning folk and Republicans have learned from and dissected these tactics and so seem to have mastered countering them. So imo, we've been looking at two parties that were working against themselves trying to avoid a complete reform from the public.. the Republican party managed to tackle this sooner out of existential necessity. Democrats I think are struggling with remaking themselves within the new status quo as they're forced to own tendencies within their own party that are really damaging to them politically...