Yea, Will Rogers did say,
“If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone ‘America died from a delusion that she had moral leadership.’”
We had great founding fathers but the nation was corrupting soon after, nevertheless, we have survived even to the present evil time.
It’s a regretful retrospect on Democrat trouble, too. One sin indulged (being pro race based chattel slavery) tends to invite more.
The more modern pivot to buy votes through welfare bribery doesn’t hide the inhuman attitude of the Democrats. It just pushes it to the other extreme.