The leftward propulsion of American socio-political-economic life during the New Deal and in the 1960s has converged with collapsing family values during the past sixty years.
For decades now liberals in the American mainstream media have willfully corrupted the values and institutions that made the United States of America into the greatest nation in the history of humanity.
When an important one of their own is attacked, Republican senators simply don't have the circle-the-wagons, defend-the-power and-the-agenda-above-all attitude of the Democrats.