The liberal weakness in the face of fascism is to try and take a 'fair and balanced' approach- 'If only we listened to both sides respectfully we could come to a common ground and move forward together productively'

This is a laudable sentiment when all parties are sane and honest, but in this case it's suicide by naivety.

When one side is claiming that global warming is a liberal hoax, you can't reason with them.

When one side is celebrating the ripping of children from their mother's arms and caging them- they don't have a point of view to consider other than hate.

You can't debate fiscal policy when the other side is screaming that you run a pedophile ring out of a pizza joint.

These are not 'Good people with bad ideas' - These are bad people using lies to advance a deadly agenda. They are not misguided, or mislead- they have finally found a leader that encourages their most vile desires and they will not let him go.

For decades they had to keep their bigotry under wraps- treat it as the shameful, unacceptable, urge it is. NOW they have those urges encouraged at the highest levels, and they are ecstatic. They are finally able to wallow in the muck openly, like the vile little pigs they always were.

They will do whatever they can to hold on to that, and many more will die before they let go of the sick dream.

Are there complex deep sociological, and anthropological causes for these creatures to exist among us? Sure... for some there is the ingrained fear of those outside your 'tribe', for others its deep insecurity, for others it was an abusive upbringing, and for some its just simple mean stupidity... but it really doesn't matter.

Knowing HOW a mad-dog was infected by rabies may be interesting, and possibly helpful in some long-term abstract way- but it doesn't really change what your immediate course of action needs to be.