I concur. That doesn't mean that liberal voters didn't slouch politically in the 2000's. It was like liberals saw the conservatives getting hyper-xenophobic, heavily-armed, nationalistic, and imperialistic, and liberals just said to themselves "oh well, not important enough to fight this with the same collective concern I have for equal rights for minorities or climate change or abortion." Now we're at where we're at because the left slept on that fight and decided not to put one up. The closest we got to gun reform was after Newtown in 2012, but even then liberals folded to the NRA like a wet towel and never went after guns beyond "common sense background checks" that never came to pass.