The left right and their media spent decades savaging Republicans Democrats in elected office.
Today, the left right and their media actually think that Republicans Democrats in elected office somehow need to bother impressing them with some sort of public display of piety, or something along those lines. As if these people are the gatekeepers into heaven or something...All politicians are supposed to want to impress the white liberals conservatives!
Virtue signalling is a bipartisan affair.
He smashed the illusion that we possess any true reverence for the moral high ground in politics and rather automatically bestow it on the team wearing our jersey. "Belief as attire" if you will, we are divided into tribalistic mindsets due to the cancer of identitarian politics.
After 8 years of bitching about Obama as the literal antichrist, the right should hardly be shocked when others follow the precedent they set.