Just a wee reminder – the last time a great military power elected (yes, Hitler was elected) a racist authoritarian we got the mass killing of religious minorities, gays, the infirm, and “inferior” races as well as World War II. Over 80 million people died from Nazi murder, soldiers and civilians killed in the war, and famine as a result of the war and authoritarian policies. I don’t have a crystal ball in which to tell if Trump is truly going to take the world down that fascist road again but I can tell you we have never come as close as we are these days. I have truly never felt so scared in my life and I lived through the latter half of the Cold War when Soviet nukes could’ve come raining down at any moment. What chills me is that I read recently how a holocaust survivor said something to the effect of “once you realize you live in a fascist state, it’s too late”. It hasn’t happened yet and it doesn’t have to happen. But all I’ve seen so far, for the most part, from those opposed to Trump and his cronies is righteous indignation, dismissal by pundits because he doesn’t fit “conventional wisdom paradigms”, and people thinking that by pressing “like” on a Facebook post or signing a useless petition is actually going to have any effect whatsoever. Trump/his cronies/his supporters are now threatening the press and trying to prevent any demonstrations in the next 6 months. This is how it begins.