Those of us born in the 80s and prior are the only hope. My wife believes the left showed their hand one generation too soon.
Time will tell.
The bunch in power now are '60s and '70s "activists" who are pretty long in the tooth, assisted by their Prozac'd kids (Karens and Kevins) and Adderalled grandkids (dressed in black and rioting on a street near you).
When the Vietnam war ended, these "Summer of Love" goons hit the discos and a lot of them started making a lot of money (some of them billionaires we know very well). A lot of them got into politics, (we know them very well, too), to "change the system from within."
They realize -- as they regard the expensive prints of Mao and Che in their luxury apartments -- that their time is short now to get that stubborn "system" changed, so they're making their ridiculously-rushed last stand, and we're taking the brunt of it. It's even money if we'll still have a country when Gen X gets its turn at the wheel.
The manner in which the Baby Boomer generation has wielded political power will go down in history as one of the most tyrannical periods in our nation’s history.
The Capitol is filled with too few who love our country enough to preserve it for the following generations.