The Democratic Party establishment has learned nothing from their failed strategies and electoral disasters, and are still lying and denying over and over with condescending smirks.
"Quite a lot of what passes itself off as dialogue about our society consists of people trying to justify their own choices.  Let me propose that if your beliefs or convictions matter more to you than people—if they require you to act as though you were a worse person than you are—you may have lost perspective."
Timothy Kreider, We Learn Nothing, 2012