Only because "Our Boys" are pathetic on those issues.
They are stupid.
Longwinded technical arguments that claim we are all better off because 40 plus year old men are losing six figure jobs and working at Home depot only make regular people more angry.
Same as telling us that dropping a hundred fifty million illiterate(in two languages) third worlders on our head in a few years' time though non amnesty amnesty makes the country stronger.
I'd like to beat them with a shovel.
The Evil One will use these issues to split the party.
A third party run(inevitable) will give her slightly over a third of the vote, just enough to win. Then she will use the Patriot Act, with it's lack of warrants and public charges to eliminate her enemies.
The good news is most of these morons will be the first ones in the camps.