In my view, the US is functionally a fascist dictatorship

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36. Precisely. The Republican Endgame was

long in the making while the rest of America naively entertained false equivalences or foolishly believed this was just about right vs left ideological differences

Not to mention the flippers, the protest voters, the undecideds, the disaffected and "can't be bothereds" who couldn't ( or refused to see) the BIGGER picture... what Republicans were really saying, what they stood for, what was at stake and what we could lose,

so wrapped up as they were, in petty differences. (Like some are still, today.)