The Party having to play the court jester used to be the Republicans. Remember "drill baby, drill!"? Existing oil wells refill, we don't need to destroy pristine wilderness. The Republicans AND Democrats are in on it together. We've always known that the politicians are run by "special interests". But the special interests are owned by the same handful of investment banks and hedge funds, most of which do not disclose their memberships.

The late 90s was peak Monica Lewinsky time and pre-Biden peak DC clown show. Now it's the Democrats. The DC "parties" have seemed to switch jester roles every couple decades. When the prevailing narrative is that "the parties switched", it's kind of correct- that the captured politicians take turns being a dumbass. We The People didn't change all that much.

The only difference today is the Democrats pretend to like minorities, but intentionally make choices that decimate their economic and social status. Like giving single mothers more money if there was no sign of the father in the household- and sending social workers to check, while sending American manufacturing overseas, destroying local economies and pushing men into despair that they couldn't provide for their families- but hey- the CIA flooded the streets with crack to distract them from their despair and our politicians criminalized the very thing the other wing of the government was pushing on the people. THAT is institutional racism- the government intentionally destroying the family unit.

Right wing, left wing- they're just two wings of the same bird.