It assumes they have no place to go so it can keep screwing them and appealing to socially liberal corporate types and wanna-be Republican soccer moms. I have no desire to support the Democrats ever again. But that's not quite the point. The point is we have moron number two in the White House. The guy has been in office for a little over two months and already the idocy and hipocricy are knee deep.
Lets take the current situation with China.
America never does anything wrong, America never makes mistakes. America can't be questioned, because America will fuck you up if you don't kiss its ass. We expelled fifty Russian diplomats to punish Russia for spying on us. Yet we justify our own spying. This is the classic mentality of the bully.