It was really all of the core issues, not necessarily of recent popularity. Family valures, just vitriol and hypocrisy that became obvious to people who were taught that America truely IS the greatest nation on earth. I was taught that. Some dare not say that is so, in pulbic places, sadly.
So, if your mom was upset that the Dems won’t profess that the U.S. is a great country, then she must have really liked Michelle Obama’s implication that she hadn’t been proud of the U.S.