[proverbialbunny]

One particularly scary one is 60 minutes recorded footage of rally of Trump supporters, where many of them on their Trump flags had fascist symbolism. This spiked a fear of fascism growing in America.

In response instead of addressing this growing anti-american anti-democratic minority, instead the news decided to associate anti-fascism with riots, protestors, and other scary negative fear based topics. Now the second anyone raises a concern about fascism, supporters will unconsciously turn a blind eye. I'm surprised such word smithing like that works, and frankly I'm scared it does work. I'm terrified that different conservative groups rallied behind not only fascist movements, but invented a boogyman term for it like antifa as a way to make the topic of fascism partisan and questionable. If that's not anti-democratic and unamerican I don't know what is.

[x86_64Ubuntu]

I think the interregnum period will be chocked full of rightwingers lashing out at the country and people in general. People that know Trump supporters know that there was a lot of identity wrapped up in his presidency, and see it cut down to one term is going to set them off.

[disgruntledphd2]

Yeah, just like there was a whole bunch of people going crazy four years ago, when Trump got elected.

America is extremely divided, and I'm not sure that it's going to recover from this (which I personally, as a foreigner, find very very sad).

[proverbialbunny]

>America is extremely divided, and I'm not sure that it's going to recover from this

Sadly without re-regulating the news it isn't, or some large trauma that brings the entire country temporarily together.

In the US we historically had similar problems, so something called the fairness doctrine was created. It was a law that required news give equal airtime for opposing views. This way no matter where you got your news you'd get the full truth, not half truths as the current American populous is getting.