I am starting to agree with stuff like this:
Republicans, to their credit, tend to prioritize their vision of the national interests over issues of process and ego. Democrats, by contrast, seem to have mostly gotten into politics in order to bolster their own sense of self-righteousness and aren’t especially concerned with whether or not their conduct in office is efficacious.
When I worked at an animal shelter I would have said the same thing about many of my co-workers, good intentions don’t matter unless you act on them.