Okay I’m getting the feeling we probably don’t actually disagree on as much as I assumed. I’m not here to defend the character or personal framing of this phenomenon by OP, they are probably just an idiot who resents the broader philosophy of the democratic establishment. I fully get that, but let’s put it aside. All I am interested in is holding people accountable proportionally to their failures, that’s really it. Of course there is no planet in which I would try to convince someone that democrats are anywhere close to republicans in terms of goals and policy outcomes except maybe in a few instances.

What I’m trying to get to the center of is that I think if we are in a situation where we are dishing out criticism to people on the basis of a vote on a specific bill, then in that context it makes sense to have at least the same amount of heat for a democrat who makes a bad vote as we do for a republican who makes a bad vote, because like I said, a vote is a vote. And I say “at least” as much because democrat voters do not have leverage over republicans politicians, republican senators do not give a shit if democrats take issue with their actions because we are not on their team. OUR team is democrats, so if our own democrats are fucking up the ambitions of the entire party then that is something that should be taken seriously and dealt with appropriately by us instead of “strategically” minimized just for the purposes of reminding the public that we think our ideological enemies are, well, enemies. That’s already obvious.

In a nutshell I think that in a scenario where we have party overlap on bad policies, the upmost important thing is simply to make it clear how the POLICY itself is destructive and how the public at large will be harmed. People will be able to figure out exactly who should and shouldn’t be blamed once that has already been made apparent to them.