That some random bodybuilder with questionable English an intellectual skills could get elected, should tell you that the rot is quite a bit older than that.
Most people were and still are blinded by the FACTS
1. Arnold was Born Bred and Raised as a Socialist(my wife is from Austria, it took me 3 years to knock some sense into her)
2. He Married in to the leadership of the Communist Party USA
3. The girly Man cares nothing about anyone other than himself.
Jesse Ventura? :)