It started with Reagan, but it was "W" who really got this shit rolling
By the time Trump showed up, it was a perfect, and inevitable shit-storm.
Right-wing talk radio, the anti-Christ theology of the "Christian" Right, the corrupt and ideological Supreme Court majority. The un-principled GOP Congress that adopted scorched-Earth hatred, ultra-red, gerrymandered state legislatures, complaint/complicit main-stream media, captured by corporate greed.
All of this was in place ready for the first true fascist that was willing to throw away everything that made America a decent place.
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