edit: How did this post turn into a debate about liberals? Have y’all never heard of fascists referring to everyone to their left as liberals? It’s such a minor point in the comic, yet it’s outshining the larger point about the rich being the single “minority” that we should actually be concerned about. These identity politics are distracting from who everyone’s common enemy should be.
Sudden hate? Also no, liberals have been fighting to maintain status quo for at least the last 40 years, while the GOP keeps systematically dismantling things. They may not have “pulled the trigger” so to say, but they treat it like their cop friend did it and they proceed to do nothing about it.
Are they better than Republicans? Yeah, duh, that bar is underground right now. Having fucking empathy makes one better than the average Republican. That doesn’t make them our friends.
They aren’t really helping or doing anything of substance right now. This is the ideal time for them to reinvent, start grassroot movements, support big changes that most Americans want to see. They need to put themselves in the way in every visible way possible. They need to make sure we all know what they stand for.
Instead of all of that, we get tepid garbage where they pray for and glorify shit like Charlie Kirk all in the name of “bipartisanship” or whatever they’re huffing. Their strategy boils down to “we’re not them at least, right?”.
TL;DR: Currently elected liberals (especially neoliberals) are just as responsible for what’s going on as the GOP. They just aren’t overtly hateful about it.
Quick Edit: My rant is about politicians. The thing I dislike about people that label themselves as liberal is they will often compromise their views to avoid conflict when convenient.