So, when the Democrats ran congress, there was no political partisanship. Ah, those were the days.
When Repubs pushed back, though, that was a bad thing. It upset the natural balance of the universe. In Democrat-world, not agreeing with them is bad. Its “partisan”.
They are half right. It is partisan, but that is not bad.
Its sort of like “grid-lock”. If half the congress wants to go in the wrong direction, which they always do, “gridlock” is the lesser of evils. Defeating them, Gingrich-style, is better though. Even if it is “partisan”.
All nonsense aside, partisanship is a function of party politics; it exists when there are sides in an issue and any attempt to separate it is an attempt to deceive.
It transcends time and history.