Yeah, it's easy to see how the parties change over time like this. Reps today are more for what Dems were for in the 90s, including immigration, wanting changes, etc. Liberals today are all about keeping things the way they've always been and catering to big business.

This occurred in the 70s too. After the liberal movements of the 60s, the 70s saw them become much less about freedom and more about controlling the masses based on moral grounds.

"I can still think offshoring was stupid and that we need to rebuild a manufacturing base here in the US. Doesn't mean I have to agree that tariffs are a good idea or a POTUS trying to bully corps into eating the cost of his reckless policy."

This is the problem with American politics, or at least the two-party system. Biden and Obama did nothing to solve the problem. They put band-aids on stuff just like Reps do but nothing was actually done to a) identify where the country can do better (efficiencies, FWA, etc.) and b) analyze incoming vs. outgoing and figure out what level of income is needed to ensure we have more than what is outgoing.

I loved when Obama campaigned on using a scalpel to go through government programs to identify all of the FWA. Liberals ABSOLUTELY loved it. But he never did it. Then DOGE comes along to do EXACTLY what Obama wanted and all of a sudden liberals completely disagree with doing it. When, in reality, we should ALL not care about who does it and just ensure SOMEONE does it. But the two-party system doesn't work like that. In fact, the two-party system has gotten so bad and corrupt that, even when billions in savings is realized, the party not doing it actually tries to get everyone to believe that those savings aren't actually beneficial. And I mean the real improvements. I'm not saying everything DOGE has done was done the right way or cause more expenses downstream than the fix. But there ARE still billions of dollars being saved that were 100% FWA and liberals are trying to convince this country that that is a bad thing (and DR can't deny it at all since you have actively put multiple articles on this site about this very topic).

So, when you say you agree with rebuilding manufacturing in America, then you are saying one of two things in your statement...a) you feel inaction is better than an action you do not agree with or b) you feel only your side should ever be the one who fixes anything, even when they don't. Either way, both of those options are why America never fixes anything anymore.