Come on man we lost the republic 30 years ago with one worlder bush.
We can lie to ourselves but it is when we lost it and Trump was trying to win it back.
I agree that that set us on the path to destruction, but it became official when both parties agreed to ignore the Constitution.
Actually the Republic was lost under Noxious Nixon who began the Tribal separate nation with casinos and mastery over non-Indians, with the EPA, with OSHA, with killing Apollo and a host of other freedom killers.
The following Presidents just fleshed out the framework he created until we have the Nixon dream of the Imperial Presidency - albeit under the benevolent eyes of the CCP