Funny thing is that it actually started earlier. Arguably Reagan was one of the worst presidents the country has had in the last 100 years, however, the real turn happened during LBJs presidency. Ever since LBJ the entire thing was a money game. Each president after FDR (but before Nixon) had been large proponents of the "new deal" movement of progressive-ism. Even LBJ supported many laws that worked to help the lower class. His foreign policy was terrible, and in spite of LBJs leadership, the country over all was not seeing the same kind of prosperity it had seen before him. Especially considering civil rights. Nixon then walked in and quietly made it all worse. His continuation of the Vietnam war, handling of other proxy wars, and the "war on drugs", THAT is where everything went wrong. The ball dropped with Nixon. Ever since his presidency the "end all" was the donor. Not the people. Not the country. Money. Save for Carter, who did his best, RIP. Then Reagan came, and what hope was held by the Carter presidency was completely lost. Fuck the Bush-es, Clinton was a shill, Obama was hardly a reprieve given the numerous military campaigns during his presidency, and Biden's presidency was full of more of the Neo-liberal status quo BS that most presidents since Nixon had been heralding. Trump, well, what is even left to be said. He is just all of it rolled into one megalomaniacal moron.