George Soros spent a fortune to turn a national party favorable to the left into an organization that has difficulty appealing to anyone not on the left
It was the end of the big year with three zeroes. The first X-Men movie had broken box office records. You couldn't set foot in a supermarket without listening to Brittney Spears caterwauling, "Oops, I Did It Again." And Republicans and Democrats had total control of both chambers of legislatures in the same amount of states.
That was the way it was back in the distant days of the year 2000.