Gun rights are stronger and ascendant, people are MUCH more aware, abortion is declining, there is a huge national movement of FR-type conservatives who are shaping events at a national level.
Some people are too easy to forget how bad things were under Clinton. Things were easily this bad.
You haven’t spent enough time outside the US either. If you had, you would realize the fact that 50% of Americans still vote republican despite this media is a bulwark that cannot be defeated. And the fact that 20%+ of Americans are FR-type Rush-listening-type aware conservatives is undefeatable.
Don’t EVER tell me my generation is the problem. It’s my parents’ generation and their parents’ generation with their head-in-the-sand attitude that has given my generation such a hard fight to fight.