One of the things that doomed Weimar Germany

[Cosmocat]

71. I was a teenager during the Reagen years

I could feel the change starting then, and I have had increasing rates of heartburn since the 90s knowing this was where it was headed.

It was fairly obvious to me as a very young adult, and it has incrementally gotten worse each and every year during the last 40 years.

This shit didn't start with 45. His master skill is knowing and stoking the lesser aspects of the human spirit, but he just plugged into what the republican party / CONservative movement had done for decades and took it next level.

He didn't cause it, it was headed this way in a slow and steady manner, he just amped it up by an order of magnitude.