Bingo. They only know what they remember the media telling them. Most had no idea Democrats ran Congress in 2006-8. The idiot Republicns went along with Bush’s attempts at bi-partisanship and suffered. No we need to clean house and fight.
You’re absolutely correct: we need to say, “We gave a good effort to getting along. We now know where that path leads. Like Israel, we now need to go after our tormentors with singleness of purpose and eliminate the threat.”