Yes. There's definitely political actors out there who seem to think that the whole point of being in office is to virtue-signal & grandstand to voters that th

Yes. There's definitely political actors out there who seem to think that the whole point of being in office is to virtue-signal & grandstand to voters that their chosen fringe elements of society are being actively courted, listened to, and having their wishes acted out in the public domain. It's also why we have hyper-partisan politics, partisan versions of "news" and so on. Washington warned us against political parties and charlatans. We've ignored him.