... reminded me of how disastrous and nation-destroying not just Carter's presidency was ( that Ronald Reagan presidency cleaned up and revitalized) but also how that same Democrat pattern recurred under Bill Clinton, and then Barack Obama, and then Joe Biden.
The pattern is always the same :
1) Democrats PRETEND TO CARE about the middle class, "Ohh, we're like you" say the pod people
2) Once elected, shove aside all concern for Americans, middle class or otherwise, and pursue their true America-hating / America-blaming socialist / Marxist ideology : Raise taxes on everyone ( not just "the rich" ) , Diminish and financially gut U.S. national security to pay for social programs. Then Democrats intentionally and deliberately pursue ideological policy, in total opposition to reality, that implodes the economy, spikes crime and illegal immigration, increases poverty and welfare dependency, in an effort to make a majority dependent on government assistance, so that a majority of voters will consistently vote for the Democrat-Bolshevik party that provides those benefits. And once achieved, once Democrats have a permanent majority, for anyone who dissents, the James Comeys and Peter Strzoks can just weaponize against dissenters, cut off their assistance, and/or prosecute and imprison them. Or following the digital currency models in China and Canada, cut off dissenting citizens' access to their own bank accounts, no matter how wealthy.
And as Democrats currently plan, to slash away Constitutional checks and balances so once in power, a small Democrat-Bolshevik core can no longer be voted out of office, so the people (as they did in 1980, 1984, 2000, 2004, 2016 and 2024) will no longer be able to remove a Democrat-Socialist Maxist government they find oppressive, as they have in the past.
Which really is no surprise, because Democrats openly worship people like Lenin, Marx, Stalin, Castro, Communist China, the Sandinistas, and Hugo Chaves, and have openly quoted them while in office since 2008. I've quoted and posted video-clips of them saying it here for years. It is no coincidence that Democrats worship Marxist authoritarian federal control, and then want to do exactly that when they achieve power. Democrats portray Trump and other Republicans as the "existential threat to Democracy", but THEY ARE the existential threat, who want to shred the Constitution and chip away all checks and balances, so they can stay in power unopposed forever.
Regarding presidenial elections, Ann Coulter in 2008 said: Every few years American voters decide to give the Democrats a chance, and are so horrified with the result that it scares them into voting Republican again.
But the Democrats are now trying to create a system where they can no longer be voted out of power. To rig the system. And that is as Bolshevik and "existential threat" as it gets.