Very closely related phenomena to rotating villain. The party knows its unpopular, so they will have a minority “defect” to make it happen, even thought the leadership, like Jefferies and Schumer are still calling for expansions of ICE funding directly.

Democrats agree with what Republicans do, but want more politeness and obfuscation around it. Notice how Biden mostly made Trump term 1 bipartisan and starting in 2025, they stopped even pretending to be an opposition party.

Being spineless, two-faced pond scum while pretending to be merely incompetent and lacking party discipline is a time honored Democrat tradition

All these metal-phobes around here