"As a conservative, I'm beginning to wonder: Are we the bad guys?"

[patphil]

33. I'm a 79 year old Liberal Democrat. Believe me, it was always there.

It took over 40 years to bring their intolerance and hatred out of the closet into the mainstream. From the early 80's on there's been a strong, growing, shift toward ultra right wing ideology that embraced a "white's only" view of who was worthy of leading the nation.
It was fueled buy a White Christian viewpoint that saw themselves as the new chosen people. Jesus became a useful tool in the process of justifying the marginalization of everyone who was not one of them. It never dawned on them that Jesus wasn't white....still hasn't.
The rise of Trump was the trigger point. His election in 2016 empowered them to "reach for the gold". Everything that's happened since then has been a prelude to project 2025, the ultimate power grab that would create a US equivalent of the German 3rd reich, that would rule for 5000 years.
As with Germany, this will end badly. Hopefully we can shut it down before it becomes a river of blood flowing through the streets of America.