The excuse is we let ourselves mistakenly believe that more government is better, in the omnipotence of the state, and we are reaping the consequences of that, still haven't learned from our mistakes, and expect yet more government to be the solution to the problems caused by government. The solution is to find alternatives ways of doing things while people wake up to the fact that they are the cause of their own problems by being members of a statist cult. Once they break away from that, America can indeed be made great again.