What went wrong with the Democrats?

What went wrong with the Democrats?: I am surely not alone in thinking the Democrat Party has, historically, been sneaky and cunning and totally rotten.  But the main thing is, they weren’t dumb.  Who’d have thought they could maneuver the COVID panic into a presidential term for Dumb & Dumber?  And then transforming USAID into the Democrat piggy bank!  Wow.  Good job!