They don’t want to pay taxes, and they don’t want government regulation that protects the poor, the worker, the environment and the consumer. And now, they have the support of their own victims; the uneducated, the oppressed, and the ignorant because they’ve managed to exploit their racism, their bigotry, religious fanaticism, and their fear and anxiety. They see a world where infinite power and wealth is theirs, just out of their grasp, if they can only be bold and ruthless enough to take it for themselves. Forever.

And they come from an ethos that values acquisitiveness, authority, and ruthlessness, and which sees compassion and introspection as weakness, indecision and effeminacy. No, they ain’t stupid. They’re no damn good. There is nothing new or novel or even unexpected about this. Its fascism, and its as old as Babylon and as evil as Hell.