i can't even guess as to why they went quiet. not one guess at all. we will never know.
edit: well they're not quiet now once they get called out
That hasn't been my experience of Democrats so much as them using "at least we aren't as bad a the Republicans" as justification for not pushing to stop harm, holding to the status quo as hard as they can and "courageously" voting with the Republicans to "save" something while dismantling something else. It seems like the lionizing of mediocrity.