> What changed in 2020?
Liberals started doing it.
Liberals started doing it.
Let's be precise; the left started doing it. We are literally discussing how big parts of the political left in the US is moving away from the liberal ideals and philosophy that it once embraced and championed.
I would be very happy if I were Russia/China.
Aside from that, if you're suggesting I'm a conservative (no worries, it's a common mistake; it's tough being politically homeless), I'm a liberal unhappy with the broad coalition that used to be called the left. If that makes me a "conservative" in your eyes, well, there probably should be a term for that too.
As you admit here, in any nation in Europe (or any nation in Latin America whose government wasn't recently installed by CIA), the name for MSNBC and the Democratic Party would be "the Right". Even in USA, they're the ones banging the drums most loudly for global thermonuclear war.
Your dissatisfaction is that you aren't a pure liberal. If you were, you would go along happily with their efforts to conserve this mess they've created. You just have an unfortunate fixation on the Bill of Rights or whatever. Keep in mind that Madison owned slaves when he wrote that, just as he had owned slaves when writing and campaigning for the Constitution the excesses of which the Bill of Rights pretended to control.