The people downvoting this post and disagreeing are the same ones that thought Kamala would dominate the election. The game has changed and some liberals/progressives have their heads so far up their own ass that they’re not talking to “real” Americans and listening to what they’re talking about and how they perceive the world and state that it’s in around them. Dems, and by proxy Progressives and Liberals, have a problem with marketing their successes and ideas. They also don’t understand how to beat someone back like Trump who is so ridiculous it creates a loop.
It’s probably not anything that recently changed. Economies are like rubber bands. They can stretch and run for a while in a deficit or without having proper upside cash flow while in a wartime economy, but eventually all of that has to come back. Russia has just had compounding economic problems (because they’re stupid) and now the hurting is starting to add up.