David Frum: It's fascism

Yet another conservative who is realizing what the Twitler movement really is. Which is basically what the Repugnacon Party has become. Given that this is what we're facing, the time for trying to reconcile with them is long passed. You don't negotiate with domestic terrorists: You fight and defeat them. At this point that's a war of words, but a war nonetheless. If you don't have the stomach for necessarily strong words to defeat this enemy, or worse deny that it's come to this, then you'll just have to rationalize your complacency and complicity. The rest of us will take up the fight. Frum:

"The Trump movement was always authoritarian and illiberal. It indulged periodically in the rhetoric of violence. Trump himself chafed against the restraints of law. But what the United States did not have before 2020 was a large national movement willing to justify mob violence to claim political power. Now it does. [...] Through the Trump years, it seemed sensible to eschew comparisons to the worst passages of history. I repeated over and over again a warning against too-easy use of the F-word, fascism. [...] It’s time to start using the F-word again."