DonHenley said:
all he could do is slow down the decay, not reverse it.
in my view, this is pretty much the entire role of the opposition to the marxist regime in our two-party system. it's unfair to expect much more than just slowing it down.
socialism is pretty much inevitable on the maturity timeline of any great empire or civilization until it destroys itself due to the already well-known pitfalls of socialism and communism. But the velocity can speed up and slow down. It can speed up quickly from power grabs, coups, stolen elections, or unfortunate election results, but can only slow down based on election results - when the republican opposition is strong enough to defend and not cede control where they already have support and to occasionally win in places they don't as well as in national elections. And it will only then slow down if the socialist opposition actually does something when they get power to do so.
it's why things like election integrity and immigration policy (and border security when the socialists really go off the deep end) are so important. the marxist tactics - from forcing division chaos and anarchy, to taking control of the education system and academia indoctrination institutions, to controlling the media messaging, to opposing secure elections and secure borders - they're all intentional for one thing: power. They think they're the good guys, but when the best "get rich quick" plan in your country is to work in government or scheme grants from government instead of work in industry, when most of the GDP growth is from growth of government, when industry and investment in your country is stagnant or negative due to too much government and regulation, when government is incentivized to stay in power by keeping people poor so people need them, when you're getting close to only half your citizenry motivated enough to work hard and provide for their family - which are the ones who pay taxes to fund the government, you're in grave danger, and the opposition needs to win sometimes to slow things down a bit or else it just speeds up and destroys quickly: Hugo Chavez style.
Shrink government, remove regulatory hurdles to business, lower taxes, encourage growth and investment - all of those anti-socialists views -- they call it "fascism" now, but that's another marxist tactic - they are needed to simply slow the socialist roll. Not reverse it. Can't be reversed unfortunately.