OMG...that is alarming.
Our party system has somehow evolved to a point where the alignment is on rationality, logic, pragmatism, reason. Pubs use it. Pubs use those themes; Dems don't - they use emotion, wants, desires. Robert Bork talks about this in one of his books quite well. With near half the population no longer swayed by logic, it is scary and alarming indeed.
Dems can break laws, break the constitution, whatever, to get what they want. To pubs and their voters, they scream and yell while, literally, murder is committed. To dems and their voters, its deaf ears... because they get what they want.