Normally, Rush would be right. The political pendulum does swing back and forth.
However, changing demographic factors, both here and in Europe, coupled with more and more people on both sides of the Atlantic, dependent upon government, has transformed politics in the West.
Mass popular democracy inevitably leads to unlimited government and socialism.
Our Founding Fathers established a limited government constitutional republic. We no longer have this. But that is the type of government most hospitable to free market capitalism, individual liberty, and private property rights.