And yes, human failures aside, there is a big difference between Democrats and Republicans -
Democrats still hold allegiance to the pluralistic principles of America and the rule of law.
Republican have utter contempt for than and are in an all out war against liberal types and progressive thinking and living. They want authoritarianism, it’s written all over GOP’s Master Plan 2025.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/will-the-heritage-foundations-project-2025-turn-trumpism-into-a-governing-agenda/
All that’s really left is watching it play out, trying to slow the degradation where we can and hanging on to one’s sanity best we can. Things are still amazingly good for many, I’m very impressed with the global resilience. But the battering ram wins in the end. We’ve squandered so, so, so many lucky breaks in our blindsided greed and party. While all the guide wires that hold together our global market based life styles keep being stressed to limits, then re-stressed, and so on.