I noted that too.
The democratic process is alive and well. These students, whether they know it or not, have learned some major life lessons here. Among those lessons are that you don’t always win political campaigns.
Also, they have learned that many people do not view the world through the lens of liberal college political views, so they have the audacity to vote Republican. As political activists, their job would be to persuade people to vote for their candidates and issues. And you will not always convince everyone of your positions.
If they come away from their experiences thinking that our political system is broken because liberals didn’t win election campaigns they worked on, I think they are clueless and perhaps mindless.
You’re right; they learned that people who work for a living and pay taxes may see the world differently than young “takers” - and just about everything they do is supported by a host of “makers” (from housing to eating to printing textbooks etc.)