Politically, Democrats decided to abandon appealing to certain groups.
Democrats decided to go all in with those pushing certain agendas. So, you see Democrats claiming to be the political champions of various minority groups, “LGBT” sexual identity peoples, environmental nuts, abortion rights activists and their “feminist” allies...........
Democrats decided to go all in, with the idea that various groups of people are discriminated against, and need big government solutions to the problems these people allegedly have.
And Democrats are all in, on the idea that any problem, everything from alleged racial discrimination to environmental problems, demands a solution from the federal government in Washington, DC. The Democrats have earned the stereotypical identity as the party of big government.
Democrats decided, that they would win elections more often than not, in promising to use the enormous power of big government, to help impose their vision of how the world should be on the rest of us.
Everything from trans-gender bathroom issues, to global warming issues, are viewed through the prism, by liberals, of them wanting to impose their views on us. And by extension, their need to use the power of the federal government to impose their visions on us.
BTTT!