Yes, especially the Democrats' level of trust for what the FBI and the CIA says has entirely 180'd from the end of the Bush years to the start of the Trump years (and it's 180ing again)

During the Bush years, at least, the Democrats preached a lot of skepticism of the intelligence agencies and corporate science.

That's pretty different from, say, the Covid era.

Undisciplined

I've noticed a pattern where the party in power loves state power and the party out of power suddenly becomes freedom fighters.

I've noticed the same thing, at all levels of all types of organization.

That's why in the 8 years of Obama the Democratic party suddenly became the party of trusting the experts.

Was that ever not the case?  Not my bailiwick, but my perception was that the official Dem narrative has always been expert-friendly, and the official Rep narrative has always been something-something-business-and-god.

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> I've noticed a pattern where the party in power loves state power and the party out of power suddenly becomes freedom fighters.

I've noticed the same thing, at all levels of all types of organization.

> That's why in the 8 years of Obama the Democratic party suddenly became the party of trusting the experts.

Was that ever not the case?  Not my bailiwick, but my perception was that the official Dem narrative has always been expert-friendly, and the official Rep narrative has always been something-something-business-and-god.