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The influx of monied interests that fled the GOP during the first Trump term are largely to blame, IMO. They are rotting the Democratic Party from the inside, pushing to keep the failed economic policies of the Reagan-era, and the DNC have gotten fat and lazy feeding off their teet.
It is embarrassing to think that the most progressive policy that the US Congress was able to pass this millennium was the ACA back in ‘09.
The corporate rot of the Democratic party and corruption by monied interests has been around since at least the Clinton era, and that was in response to Reagan. It all comes back to Ronald fucking Reagan.
Absolutely agree that the rot was present all the way back then, my contention is more that the influx of Never-Trumper, temporarily embarrassed Republican monied interests into the modern Democratic Party was the final straw that broke the camel’s back.
I would go so far as to state that the GOP Fiscal Policy of the ‘90s would align with the current DNC platform, that is how far right the Overton Window has shifted in my lifetime.