Edited to replace original incorrect Herzog attribution with my own version that correctly attributes the quote
the country’s history is a constant stream of oppression and political violence.
this would be applicable to the entire history of the human race as well.
i don’t exactly understand what you think we’re talking about. you say it’s a “specific problem” but didn’t specify it really. so i don’t know what’s supposedly impossible merely 20 years ago.
i'm talking about the fascist conservatism problem, and the specific ways in which it's being empowered. Something like this has literally never happened before, hitler being the closest thing, arguably. But that was before the modern era and now we have so many more avenues for social control and influence than with hitler.
there was always oppression and there still is.
i don't disagree, i just think in this specific aspect (politics) it's gotten substantially worse since the early oughts.
The specific mechanism of the problem is brand new and very hard to deal with, which compounds with the problem.