Democrats have negative intelligence. They are intelligent tool using homonids just like normal people, but they diligently use their intelligence to find new and exciting ways not to understand a single goddamn thing about the world around them.
They just do not fucking understand at all, in any way whatsoever, who the fash (well, the other fash) are and why they believe what they believe and behave as they behave. The amount of pig-headed ignorance, the absolute refusal to understand the enemy, is FUCKING INCREDIBLE.
They still, to this day, refuse to think of Republicans as their enemy. It would be rude or something and they just won't tolerate that.
Their enemies have attacked their governors and the dang capitol, they just refuse to acknowledge that the stakes are real and that their opponents can't be compromised with.
Sorkin brain and its consequences.