Get a time machine. Bring forward virtually any US politician from before 2000 and show them what our society has become and they would all say: “How the heck did you screw it up so badly?”
My answer: After 9/11 we lost the war, and Radical Islam has found a million ways to hollow us out since then. They have billions in oil wealth, and they have used that money skillfully to destroy western civilization.
Islam and leftism are both totalitarian.