Also @Glisten it's not just the USA, there's a push to the extreme right going on all over the world,, where ordinary people, not bad people, who've suffered bad luck such as pandemics and loss of income and are not particularly fond of people such as LGBTIQA or trans people, or immigrants, women...think we've got too much power. People like him are capitalising on that because like the supernarcissists like Hitler they don't care about anything but power, and they don't care whom they use or push around to get and exercise it.
As I explained to a friend of mine last night, even Donald Trump's supporters aren't to blame for what he's doing, he's the one who's saying "Let's do this...and let's do that.". Just as Hitler was the one saying "Let's build the concentration camps.", and by the way my grandfather was a prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp, he was put to work in the soap factory that made soap out of human fat from the bodies incinerated in the furnaces. This is hpw horrific political realities can become. I'm not saying it will get as bad as that, but even without getting as bad as that, it can still get quite bad. Already this push to the extreme right around the world is costing lives, in the LGBTIQ community we're suffering an increase in violence against us, there's a rise in domestic violence, a rise in racism... .
As a transgender man who has schizophrenia and Jewish background I long ago accepted that bigotry will always be a part of my life, and that sometimes it'll be less intense, and sometimes more. This period is one of the more intense ones, and it's costing lives and communities...and we're asked to say nothing!
