It was only about 6 or 7 years ago when I would just laugh off crap like this. Just a few lunatic fringe crackpots, or so I used to think. I am now astounded by how many seemingly otherwise intelligent people are buying into alt-right propaganda and authoritarianism.
I had hoped for quite a while that this was merely the death wheeze of older, white supremacists, and that the US would inevitably evolve into a more diverse, multicultural and progressive Country. As I now witness the country going backwards, I am no longer thinking my hope is realistic. Maybe the best I can hope is that this stuff is cyclical.
Two thoughts come to mind. The GOP must be defeated in the short term. They cannot be allowed to retake control of the federal government. But democracy cannot survive in a one-party state, and towards that end, the GOP must either be reformed or replaced. I don’t care which, and I don’t care if it takes a long, long time. But the US needs at least two major parties, and one of them can not have the end of democracy as its main goal.