I believe I have some answers.

The Democrats have been a party of corrupt elites since the very beginning, from Andrew Jackson to Joe Biden. Lyndon B. Johnson was a classic deep-state Democrat, with the ultimate goal of the same thing the Democrats do every night, try to take over the world. As Goldwater said, he used "every dirty trick in the bag". But he saw that their racist assholery wasn't so popular anymore, so he devised a multi-layered plan: The Democrats would do what appeared to be reversing their platform, by flipping their position on a small subset of issues (mostly social, like hating "niggers", gays, "kids these days", etc.) to the exact opposite, while keeping their ultimate goals exactly the same. Only their surface beliefs changed, and only a few of them, but they made these ones the main focus so that no one would the important ones. THIS IS REAL "SOUTHERN STRATEGY". The politicians were in on it, explaining why none of the elites "switched sides" like they try to claim.

This proved very effective. What ended up happening was that the old Democrats were confused, and reluctantly began to move to the Republican party; kind of like how Nazis hang out in free speech havens even though they hate free speech, because liberals ban them from everywhere else. This allowed the Democrats to begin taking over the Republican party by sending rhino agents to appeal to the old Democrats who fled there. This is the true origin of the social and "religious" right. Goldwater saw this starting to happen very early on and warned us about it.

Meanwhile the Democrats' original party gained a strong following with its bigoted SJW platform, a 180 turn on the surface but with the same underlying authoritarian framework, and exploited the trendy progressives into voting for the deep state and big government, as well as convincing entire groups of people that not supporting them=racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. Now the Democrats were pulling the strings of a party and a half, convincing people that they were polar opposites by orchestrating these stupid culture wars to distract us from actual politics. And people fell for it, and still do!

The last major dissidents were the libertarian-minded conservatives, who survived until 2020 when the Democrats orchestrated insane riots to "prove" that freedom is a liberal value, exploiting their tribal instincts to make them turn against it, and scaring them into war mode where people feel the need for drastic order and security. Thus manipulating them to support Democrat puppets who promise to crush their enemy and help them prevail. This is the same tactic dictators like Stalin and Hitler use to rise to power: fear, anger, misinformation, and tribalism.

Democrats now control everything, but give us the illusion of choice like in The Matrix.

I'm calling America dead. The deep state plot to take over America worked, and everyone fell right into their trap. I'm calling this Democratgate.