When the history of this era, which started in 2010 with Citzen's United, not Trump's election in 2016, is finally written scholars are going to be completely baffled that "liberal" capitalist parties genuinely thought the best way to stop fascism was to persecute the broader left - which in this context means "poor people and Nans what need social security to survive."

Like, that's going to look SO FUCKING STUPID once history moves on from this insanity.