Someone mentioned the when? I’m going to steal from another post I saw on FR or somewhere else on the question. The real, practical turning point was the Occupy Wall Street protests in and around 2011. It was unlike most earlier protests I guess since the 60s in that the protestors essentially gave a middle finger at the very foundations of our systems; Capitalism and western concepts associated with it. The reaction from Obama and his administration was almost a tacit approval. Just consider those ramifications…. I think that gave the radical left the green light and recall the overt attacks on the symbols of our systems—monuments, statues etc began shortly after Trump took office only 4 years or so after Occupy Wall street. If we would have acted with authority and used “patty wagons” to haul the hundreds of thousands of miscreants away to jail, even better yet busted a few heads like a majority of nation states do when their existence is threatened we wouldn’t be in this mess today.
