These Aren't the Democrats of Old
So what happened to turn the party of Harry Truman, JFK and even Bill Clinton into a woke
neo-Maoist movement? Traditional Democrats were seen increasingly as namby-pamby naifs who rotated power with establishment Republicans. Now with money and institutions in its hip pocket, and cool popular culture on its side, the left would not just damn American institutions but infect them — reengineer them into revolutionary agencies.