“The United States, just months before its 250th birthday as the world’s leading democracy, has tipped over the edge into authoritarianism and fascism,” Garrett Graff, the American historian and author, wrote in August. “In the end, faster than I imagined possible, it did happen here.”
One awakes to new horrors each day. And it is difficult to grasp – and painful to realize – just how far gone we are, and how quickly it has happened.
I don’t make any distinction between the two. These aren’t people who were tricked once or twice, it is a continuous, repetitious pattern of rejecting reality, which is been playing out in front of their very faces. A person who does not learn from mistakes, who never grows as a person, and harms others as a result, is malicious.