One of these tribes repeatedly puts too much faith in their politicians to represent their interests, and then goes to work making excuses for why their legisla

One of these tribes repeatedly puts too much faith in their politicians to represent their interests, and then goes to work making excuses for why their legislation always seems to end up with loopholes, resulting in an ever-accreting ball of regulatory capture embraced by big business. The other tribe just voted to outright destroy our government, on a spectrum somewhere between straight spite and handing control over to the very consumer surveillance industry that they themselves had been complaining about. When the other tribe tried to engage about the multiple bold lines being crossed and where the path would inevitably lead, they jeered and caricatured the frustration as "tears". I'd say that some schadenfreude about a smaller situation with quicker feedback is an understandable coping mechanism.