Add in the fact that some in the group demanding to be appealled to is out of touch with where the actual populace is at to the degree that they dont even realize that to appeal to them on unpopular positions would alienate more voters than they represent. Couple that with the fact that demands on items that are unrealistic to implement without wide-scale support in the populace, and you have a small group of people you have to spend alot of energy and political capital to appeal to, in ways that are largely symbolic in practice, all while that group insults you and offers next to nothing–“Dance for our vote! Grovel for our vote you fucking murderers!!”.

And then they are so perpetually online in their echo chambers they dont realize their views actually aren’t very popular, so insular they wonder why the rest of us don’t spend all day catering to their bullshit!