All according to plan.
Actually, the crumbling began in earnest with the ascendance of LBJ, possibly the most corrupt person to sit in the Oval Office in our history until Joe Biden. LBJ built the foundation for America’s demise, and which has been used by the dems to destroy the greatest nation in recorded history. Just read this: https://carm.org/government/45-goals-of-communism/. They told us what they were going to do, Sen. McCarthy tried in vain to show us what they were doing, but they were already in control of the news media, the entertainment industry, and much of our government. It was not too late then, but now it will be very unpleasant to reverse course. Communists never go quietly.