Yeah . . .that color reversal always struck me as a transparent attempt to disassociate "liberals" from their commie buddies. Never did look right to me. What surprised me was nary a peep when the reversal took place. . .it was like no one noticed.
The MEDIA is the one that uses the colors, and decides which party is assigned to what color. The MEDIA knows (and has tested over and over and over and over) that BLUE promotes tranquility, calm, peace. The color RED produces anxiety, fear, anger, hostility, flight, heightened blood pressure, you name it.
Telling that the color assignment is a stamp of support by the OLD MEDIA.
TC