There is form and there is content. Sometimes timing is everything.
The public is fickle. After there are bad storms, much of the public starts to think that maybe there is something to AGW after all (fear response). This tends to fade over time (after things return to normal) and realize that the Climate Hustlers are trying to stampede them into giving up freedom and prosperity for socialism under the tired Marxist pretext of "saving the world".
Same for incidents like mass shootings by psychopaths. The public reacts emotionally to their own grief and horror, thinking that something must be done to try to prevent such things from happening (and since only 30% of voters own guns, those who don't think in terms of denying them to would-be murderers through force of government).
As with other things, once things go back to normal, the public's "do something" attitude settles down to "do something SMART" for the most part.
The left caters more to the "do something ANYTHING" crowd. The same one which follows the time-honored edict, "When in danger, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout - and try to pass Draconian, useless gun-grabber legislation through Congress".
