The Democrats declared the Republicans were the war party. Actually Democrats were far more likely to start, expand or generally muck up things that led to war.
Democrats abandoned average Americans far before you think. Democrats put the frog on to cook on where they are now a long time ago. The frog was simmering before the 1990s and just now approaching boil.
I was in college during the 1970s and registered as a Democrat. I am lucky that some very bright people educated me about reality in time for me to cast my first vote for President for Reagan.
You made some good points but need to look further back. Much further back.
Yes, the trouble has been going on a long time. I’m reading Blacklisted By History by M. Stanton Evans about Senator Joseph McCarthy. What the Democrats did to him made me so mad I had to put the book down for a while.
But today both parties have become something else, & they work together to the detriment of the country. This writer did make some interesting points.