I mean the difference is that the old RNC deliberately invited the vampire inside, thinking they could control them. They were supposed to be useful idiots to get extra votes. They were wrong and lost control.
The DNC recognizes that if they ever actually gave the people power they'd never get it back. So they're much more diligent about denying any possible progressive advancement, up to and including damaging their own party to do so.
I'm not really against age verification, the problem is that I'm very, very against having a government backed database of all porn I visit. Nobodies really assured me that current implementations aren't doing that.
Plus, at the rate we're going I'm not really sure how much longer porn will be legal, free speech rights be damned. Both the right and the left and the younger generation seem fully invested in 'save the kids' mentality these days.