No, ribit ... I believe it goes back a lot further than that ... to the pussification of the Democrat Party wherein they made it their mission to convince as many weak-minded souls as possible that it was best for them to surrender their self-respect, their intellectual honesty, and their rights in exchange for a condescending nanny-government that will supposedly "take care of them from cradle (if they don't abort you, first, that is) to grave."
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence