Gee, I remember hearing all about this...
During the Carter era...
Face it, America! Our time is over! We're in permanent decline, the Soviet Union is in ascendancy! The best we can do is hope that they don't kill us all to be rid of the nuisance!
That was the essential tack of an article in Newsweek, Time or one of the other Red-loving magazines in the late 1970s.
Thank God we had Ronald Reagan to say "hold my Campari and Soda and watch this..."
The screeching the left lovers put up wasn't nearly as bad as the anti-Trump brigades, but it was there, and it was a red hot fury that Reagan and the Republicans would dare to try to take on our intellectual, moral, and political superiors....