Having existed as an organized political party since well before the whigs and the civil war, they have been playing the game a lot longer than we have been too. I think it shows. consider that they are responsible for slavery, jim crow laws, dred scott, the KKK, etc and blacks still support them unwaveringly. That’s called being on top of your game.
What we've seen since is a classic Communist seizure of power: class division, divide-and-conquer strategies (exploitation of racism, feminism: men vs. women, young vs. old, etc., etc.), 24/7 media propaganda, indoctrination of the young (especially the universities), the use of environmentalism as a tool to sidetrack capitalist enterprise and use of natural resources, the promotion of family breakdown, sexual libertinism, abortion, homosexuality, pornography -- and much else.