When typical lefties stopped being compassionately anti-war and (honestly) anti-racist and instead began showing actual malice -- [Only] Black Lives Matter versus the '60s civil rights movement, vicious cancel culture, etc -- that's when I stopped assuming most liberals were well-meaning but misguided in many areas.

Now they're malicious and bizarrely wrong about everything.

But even in the '60s (yes, I'm that old) it was obvious that the giant government "solutions" to already diminishing or non-existent problems -- LBJ's entire Great Society, for instance, the War for Peace in Vietnam (AKA, Christmas for arms manufacturers and undertakers), and more -- were wrecking America rather than improving it. Not to mention the horrors we were inflicting all over the globe.