I think a large part of this is that people on the Left let themselves get too emotional about things and it leads to disorganization and public embarrasement.

I think a large part of this is that people on the Left let themselves get too emotional about things and it leads to disorganization and public embarrasement. I once spoke to a Republican strategist that told me the greatest thing Ronald Reagan ever did for this country was to get maligned by the left. Because all through his Presidency the left screamed “he’s going to get us into a nuclear war” at the top of their lungs and in the end he ended up signing huge arms reductions. That resonated with people and made the left look really bad. Even in less successful Presidents like George W. Bush you see this. Bush didn’t lie. He really did think there were WMD in Iraq. Any rational look at the situation makes that very clear (why would he push WMD so hard if he knew they’d never be found and he’d come off looking like an idiot?). Yet rather than push the much more compelling argument that Bush simply didn’t fight the Iraq war competently you have people on the left screaming “Bush lied-People died”