Democrats 2016: Trump is an old, white, out-of-touch billionaire and therefore unqualified to be the president of the United States. Democrats 2020: Michael Bloomberg is the answer to Trump.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/11/reporters-are-refusing-to-face-the-ugly-truth-about-the-gop/ There was no equivalent critique of Democrats. This is not “the country’s susceptibility” — it is the Republicans’.
-Almost 70% of American seniors are white and Christian. -Only 29% of young adults are white and Christian. -In 2018, Americans who claim no religion passed Catholics and Evangelicals as the largest group on the General Social Survey. https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/1199360345535442945 This is a *very* big shift in American culture, power, and values, and it animates more of our politics than people realize. For all the political power the Christian right holds, they feel they're losing the culture war, and losing the future.