This is what we get for sitting around whining while the Left took control of media, education, and pop culture. The demographic that elected Reagan is gone.
I don't know if stopping it was even possible. The communists have always had world domination as their goal, and they are surpirsingly close to that today. One of the fre remaining bastions of liberty was the US, and it has always been the target for them.
We used to kill communists, now we give them tenure.