> Looking back, I think this started well before Trump anyway, probably with Obama. In said essay, I make the argument that the original inflection point was t

> Looking back, I think this started well before Trump anyway, probably with Obama. In said essay, I make the argument that the original inflection point was the rejection of Jimmy Carter's policies of self-sacrifice today for a brighter future tomorrow, in favor of Reagan and that hot new girl at the party, Neoliberalism. From there it was a cancer that just ate away at institutions, traditions, policies, decorum, and every level of government as voters time, after time, after time, adopted a position of "F*k you, got mine". Everything after - Bill Clinton's welfare reform and Lewinsky scandal, the Bush-Iraq double-features, Obama's and the Dem's non-punishment of the finance sector post-'08, and the failure to properly hold accountable Trump et al after Jan 6, all contributed to the decline in their own ways. That's why I'm so confident that it's over: it's been in progress for decades.