There was a particular strain of American political thought (essentially, a calm and even somewhat relaxed left-populism) that once created stuff like this. Unfortunately, those folks lost an internal partisan war in the Democratic party with the people who cheered the fall of South Vietnam.
It’s a damned shame that it all happened that way.
It was about the time the old strain of conservative democrats started to leave the party because it had moved to far to the left.
You measn, once upon a time, Democrats weren’t embarrassed to be American?