I would argue that 'win at all cost' is played by both parties. It's a form of 'the ends justify the means' and I really wish that people of both parties understood the long-term implications of that approach.
There are plenty of faults in the Democratic party, but “both sides” is a tired and inaccurate trope.
It is very interesting how the manner in which people think changes when the topic changes, and also how we focus only on the flaws in intelligence of the supposedly dumbest among us.
> There are plenty of faults in the Democratic party, but “both sides” is a tired and inaccurate trope.
Only if the claim is both sides are identically bad, which is rarely the case.
It is amazing how simple memes (and boy, does our culture run on them) can inject bugs into cognition.