These are not unprecedented times, they’ve done this time and time again, which is why their history does matter. Liberals thought the same change was gonna change when the squad got elected. None of them were given any positions of power or influence until they started parroting the same party bullshit, and the ones that didn’t are never talked about anymore. They thought Hope and Change™ was gonna bring about progress, but we ended up with another Reagan in blackface, or as Malcolm X called them, a house negro.

They’ve been given multiple chances over multiple decades, they have no interest in allowing the system to change that they benefit from so much. Which is why the party and their voters fight harder to prevent leftists from gaining a foothold than they do Republicans.