@alanferrier True but not, I think, in the way you meant.

Every country contains multitudes, and almost every person can be activated to be empathetic or fearful.

Fascism is very unpopular. It’s shockingly popular among a subset of elites and weirdos, but this has always been the case.

At the moment, the elite/weirdos have unusual structural power, and counterpower groups – the Democratic party, the institutions, the are all fragmented or asleep at the switch