Both parties use the same consultants, I don't see why people don't see that as the real issue. The consultancy class is making a killing off of both parties while actively ignoring the populace. The more they ignore us, the more they get paid to understand us, which they will continue to actively fail at because they don't want to understand us: they just want to get paid, doesn't matter the party. They really make their money by telling politicians what they want to hear about their constituents, rather than constituent reality. That's why Chuck Schumer literally makes up his constituents, I'm not kidding, he talks to imaginary constituents he thinks represents people.

Also, yes, Obama appointed Tom Homan, and people need to stop pretending the Democrats haven't had any hand in this.

They really love defending the guy who ramped up the drone war, because it wasn't our soldiers dying, it was just kids who were "terrorists." He codified and legalized the worst excesses of the Bush admin and that's why Trump has his hands on mass surveillance via Palantir and more. People like us warned the Democrats not to do it, in case someone like Trump arose. Someone you couldn't trust with those powers.