decadence

The West is collapsing because of its liberal decadence.

"The bad manners of this administration are indications of the decadence and decline of the West in general."

What's most striking here is the totalizing theory detailed in Project 2025 that America is hopelessly "woke," and that most Americans have been consumed by what Vought and his ilk see as secular decadence.

A once-proud empire, the envy of the rest of the world, slouches toward decadence and spectacle under the hand of emperors for whom the cruelty, and the entertainment value, are often the point.

It’s a sinister mode of decadence — decadent minimalism, where overt virtue signaling meets seemingly neurotic purity fantasies, where customers dance in the glow of the glare on bulk bins.