Republicans are at the top and good at messaging to the bottom (but they rarely actually help the bottom).
Democrats are just bad all around, bad at messaging and bad at achieving things, but at least they mostly don't make things worse, and people with enough time invested in understanding politics (a minority of people) see that. When things do get worse and Democrats are in charge, Republican messaging is effective at convincing people it's the Democrats' fault (which it kinda is because they did nothing to stop it, and kinda isn't because they did nothing to cause it, and in any case the Republicans are even worse but good at saying they're not).
They're being contrarian and pedantic for the sake of being contrarian and pedantic. No, DNSSEC doesn't protect anything the user cares about because it protects IP addresses and the user doesn't care about IP addresses. Yes, DNSSEC protects the user because it blocks one vector by which they can be redirected to a phishing site.
You're all over this thread and every other DNS thread, even the ones that don't have much to do with DNSSEC, constantly complaining about DNSSEC. Why?
Last time you were arguing DNSSEC wouldn't solve BGP hijacks because whoever was hijacking the DNS server would just hijack the web server instead.
Democrats are just bad all around, bad at messaging and bad at achieving things, but at least they mostly don't make things worse, and people with enough time invested in understanding politics (a minority of people) see that. When things do get worse and Democrats are in charge, Republican messaging is effective at convincing people it's the Democrats' fault (which it kinda is because they did nothing to stop it, and kinda isn't because they did nothing to cause it, and in any case the Republicans are even worse but good at saying they're not).