One word: L I B E R A L S
"What a complete, total, absolute sham," Vin Weber, a former House member from Minnesota and now an adviser to Coleman, told the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The Democratic party "clearly intends to exploit Wellstone's memory totally, completely, and shamelessly for political gain. To them, Wellstone's death, apparently, was just another campaign event."
This was the earliest, most visible sign that leftists - never a group that was for tradition or decorum in the first place - would weaponize EVERYTHING for political gain.
Minnesota became Ground Zero for that strategy, and the impact is now being crystallized.