DDD in the US

"Americans have not been proud of the government that’s supposed to
serve them for most of this century so far. The first president to take
office in the 21st century was George W. Bush, who left the country
divided, at war, and in recession. Barack Obama ran as a candidate of
hope that could only come through change—through the repudiation of the
previous administration.
After eight years of Obama, however, Americans sought hope in another
great change, this time with the untried alternative to Hillary Clinton,
Donald Trump. Four years later, voters declared the Trump experiment a
failure, voting him out without necessarily eagerly embracing Joe Biden
or Kamala Harris.
And after four years of Biden, the country is desperate again for
change, maybe one that will bring “joy,” something that’s been in short
supply these past 24 years. Informed voters who are not partisan
Democrats know that Kamala Harris is not a force for change at all—she’s
a continuation of the Biden administration, which is her administration
too. She’s a slippery, cynical, standard-issue politician of the
California liberal variety. The first and so far only major media
interview of her campaign confirmed this—and also confirmed that Harris
won’t be held back in the least by her record or political identity.
She correctly perceives that voters still want change more than they
want any program, whether left or right. So she is running on her
strengths as a non-entity who hardly attracted the public’s notice in
her four years as vice president. She’s running as the challenger and
positioning Trump as the incumbent.
The tell-tale word that Harris kept returning to in her discussion with
CNN’s Dana Bash was “decade”: “Turn the page on the last decade,” “I’m
talking about an era that started about a decade ago….” Harris is
running against the past, but not just against Trump—who was, after all,
president for only four of the past ten years. The decade that Harris
wants to leave behind includes two years under Obama and four under
Biden and Harris herself. But Harris wasn’t the face of those years of
disappointment,..."
For Harris, those years of disappointment started about a decade ago.
But for Americans in general, most of this century.
(DDD = Decades of Democratic Discontent or Disappoint)