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Agreed the timeline is shorter than decades. Perhaps the earliest significant shift was with FDR’s replacement by Truman, who also replaced the Secretary of State with someone more anticommunist.
If you really try to see the big picture of the history of power in the US, the Nazis and fascists really ruled for the vast majority of it.
From the genocide of native Americans, to slavery and racial segregation. The overexploitation of immigrants, the extreme caste system of races etc.
Arguably only for a couple of decades around the turn of the 20th century and around WW2 that more progressive, or even leftist, factions managed to gain any power. And truly only during less than 10 years around WW2 that they actually had any real power.