Cicero got it right

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
Who wrote this? An observer drawing reasonable conclusions about the impact of progressives domination of America? Nope. It was an observer of human nature more than two thousand years go. Cicero understood human nature. And so did the Americans who rebelled against the oppression of King George III.
In 21st century America we don't see the overwhelming evidence of rot around us. Detroit is a horrific example. Dozens of major cities are on the same path. We are no longer weary of traitors. We elect them and believe their lies.