FLIMFLAM is right. Charlatans have been continuously preying on easy marks from the time we came out of the caves, if not before, and they are continuing to do so today.
Most of their marks are Democrats, and this has been noticed by the leaders of the Democrats who now have overtly adopted the style and substance of the charlatans and swindlers.
The marks are still falling for it, hook, line and sinker.
Sounds like Mr. Burns when he was mistaken for the alien in the X-Files episode of the Simpsons.