I understand it. Conservatives want to be left alone. Leftists want to control others.
We, as Conservatives, have been trusting enough at the state and local levels to take the stance that over the years, we have declined to get involved with it ourselves, and have given Leftists, who don’t deserve the consideration, the room to do their lawfully assigned tasks within the confines of written law.
Democrats want to get as many people as they can into state and local positions who can have an effect on this process, and they don’t want Conservatives digging their noses into it.
I speak from experience.
We live in a “High Trust” society, and we trusted (to our discredit) Leftists to abide by the law. We do, religiously, and they, religiously, do not.
BINGO!!