To be clear, I am only talking about people like the average working class Trump voter. The ones who just got caught by misinformation, and just haven’t been able to find a way out. Trump and all his mates are terrible people, and should be held accountable.
The average voter is another thing. My attitude is that I got lucky, and found out that Trump and his mates are terrible, instead of getting sucked down a rabbit hole of supporting them. Knowing how fascism works, I don’t know if I’d be able to reliably land on the right side if fascism happened in my home country. And if I don’t believe I could reliably spot fascism, I’m not comfortable acting like those who support Trump could have.
This isn’t a discussion of “just be a good person”. I know plenty of amazing, caring people who believe they’re doing the right thing.
This whole idea of “I can’t say is reliably avoid fascism” is based on this, the school that became fascist for a week. As bad of an experiment that was from that teacher, it was an effective way of teaching how people fall for what should be obviously a bad thing.
I blame every GOP vote on the DNC, which stopped having democratic elections to compete and became a grift for PR execs like Jen O’Malley Dillon, who ran the Biden/Kamala not trying to win campaign. At this point the GOP is the only place Americans can democratically vote dissent, the DNC is a Hong Kong-style picked candidate party but with a secret leadership, and the duopoly will NEVER allow a real third party after Perot, but being the right wing party branding-wise EVERY dem (including Cheney MSNBC dems) would need to do so and that would never happen