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of ideological shifts. I believe this one to conservatism that began in 1978 is artificially strengthened and kept from ending by the kind of factors you're talking about, plus the enormous growth of power among the wealthy coinciding with enormously powerful advances in mass communications.
We have very different ideas of who's responsible on our side for bringing us to this, though.
This is still a democracy, and we get what we empower by how we use our voting power, or mistakenly imagine we're not using it. Citizens who make dreadfully wrong choices are the engine of our disaster, not the Democratic leaders they refused to listen to.
They can't shift responsibility to party leaders for their own years of badouthing Democrats to people already likely to not vote, and other dread consequences of their own actions. They own it.
In 2016 the choice couldn't have been simpler -- liberal progressive Democratic control or authoritarian kleptocratic Republican. Either-or. No other possibility.
And here we are, with all too many doing the same thing to Republican and Russian glee all over again.