Comment Re: Not real [Re:Well, we're lucky] (Score 1) 136
I read just yesterday they jave many permanent effects and are not reversible at all depending on the age started. But that in some cases that is the lesser issue.
But you succinctly stated the playbook. Spot something unrelated to the issue you feel your party is in the minority opinion on, but that the opposition, will defend emotionally and make that the issue. It helps if you are in the majority opinion on that issue. It is mostly a weakness in the democrats. They have The Groups and they maintain solidarity, so you only have to find an issue that one of them cares about to get the rest to hold the line, even at the expense of the issue they would have won on. In this case the left didn't just stop campaigning on the other issues, they stopped fighting for many of them altogether. That is what killed them.