I did not follow it so long ago but a lot of political speakers in the US say it goes as far back as Reagan, that’s when the real rot set in for the GOP and at least when Nixon turned out to be a crook back in the 70’s, the Republicans in Congress were on the verge of booting him out till he resigned. If you see some of the Trump supporters being interviewed at some his rallies, the ignorance and lack of a basic sense of right and wrong and just common sense and decency is quite astonishing, yet these are the people he will not have time for in reality.
