Politicians, I think, like to "gin up" partisan issues that really are not that significant, to me, to avoid the big ones they know they can't resolve. Most of the burfle I hear from them is just that, ridiculous burfle.
OK, billionaires are bad, we're told, so they want to raise marginal income tax on income billionaires don't have.
Guns are bad, so they want to "ban" a type of gun rarely used to commit crimes and ignore the other kind.