[nsxwolf]

> The percentage of the population that holds what one might call far-right fascist views seem to be higher than it's been in the last 50 years if you assume that voters' views are more or less aligned with the politicians they vote for.

My impression is this is a story being told by the media and seems true when you spend a lot of time on Twitter. If it weren't for 24 hour news telling me so, and occasionally spotting some weirdos like the "Patriot Guard" walking around a city, I don't think I'd have any sense of this being real in my day to day life.

> and are now proposing state-wide abortion bans, taking over school boards to ban books and alter health and science curricula, and more.

The abortion issue has been being battled forever now, and it's odd that one side is being seriously labeled "facist" all of a sudden, now that the tug of war game has pulled the flag a bit to their side. And I have seen books "banned" (i.e., excluded from small public school libraries) for one reason or another by "both sides" my entire life.

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It's not sudden - Bush Jr. was called a christofascist back in the day. He's just been rehabilitated now that the press has a new, Cheeto-flavoured Hitler to scream about.