I'm not going to post a detailed recap of the past 30 years of American political history in a HN comment. All of your questions can be answered in a few minut

I'm not going to post a detailed recap of the past 30 years of American political history in a HN comment. All of your questions can be answered in a few minutes with sufficiently well crafted DDG/Google/Bing searches. If you are so far removed from US politics that you don't have the background knowledge to frame such queries, then it's unclear to me why you're replying at all.