Holy shit, this sounds too familiar.
Y'see, in Poland in 2015, after 8 years of the centre-ish Civic Platform party ruling the country, they lost the presidential and parliamentaly elections to the socialist right Law and Justice.
What followed was dismantling the checks and balances, alienating everyone that isn't Belarus, Hungary and San Escobar (look it up), nepotism, incompetence, passing the 2017 budget in conditions that make it impossible to tell if it was legal, and a semi-successful child support program, which is the only thing those morons (arguably) did right, and bring up even at unrelated occasions.
And while doing all that, one of the most popular reactions of the pro-gov't bloc would be "BUT THE PREVIOUS GOV'T DID THE SAME!!1", even though, for all intents of purposes, they either did that on a smaller scale, or didn't do that at all. And either way, that doesn't make this shit any better.
I see the United States are going the same way. Lovely. Draining the swamp, then fill it with piss.*
* yes, I know that the whole Trump piss scandal was debunked, but that metaphor works anyway