Hi, person who was an adult in 2006 here 👋. The normie views of the time were that gay people deserved civil unions, vaccines were common sense, the Iraq War was bad, trans people were harmless oddities, and legal immigrants deserved a path to citizenship.
There's an emergency fifth path on the Fuck Democrats flowchart, when you absolutely can't complain about an objectively good thing Democrats did, pretend it just sort of happened by itself and assume Democrats opposed it.