The left is incredibly self destructive and they blame those making good decisions for their plight.
This is the Munchausen Administration.

h/t Travis McGee
Ostensible ‘conservatives’ have been just as complicit in turning our Republic into an empire.
To this day there are people on here for whom having about 800 military bases in 70 countries can be rationalized; the support on FR and many other “conservative” sites for the debacles of Iraq, Afghanistan, and, going back, to intervening in Vietnam has been loud, strong, and attacked all disagreement as ‘anti-American.
We stupidly gave up our Republic for Empire long ago, so long that it has been rationalized as ‘normal.