Politics have gotten past the constraints of truth and honor.
Words no longer have meaning, it is now just bare knuckle partisanship.
And, one might ask, "Why is this so?"
In my view, it traces directly to the left's adoption of dialectical materialism as a philosophy and an adherance to Lenin's dictum -- Everything Is Political.
The left has chosen to make everything political, automatically resulting in polarization. And they readily redefine words and change their meaning, in accord with their philisophy, in order to further their agenda.
The rest of us (including the right) are merely responding to the left's initiative.
It's no longer like the politics of our youth -- where Democrats and Republicans were both Americans first -- sharing goals but disagreeing on methods -- and politics ended at the ocean shore. Those days are gone -- thanks to an invidious leftism that first infected the country's polity in the sixties.
Nicely stated.