I think your original estimate is correct, but the problem is that they've captured enough media outlets that sow doubt about right-wingers' true natures to make another 20-30% just uncertain enough to vote for the nazis.

Agree with your remediation, though. Confederates, Nazis, and J6ers are enemies of the state and should be forever barred from holding public office.

Sherman had the right idea.

We have to learn our lesson and not repeat it no matter how many crocodile tears are pleas to Civility and mercy there are, even if they come from liberals. Not going far enough is a bigger risk than going too far

Operation Paperclip would like to have a word.

Yeah. I'm in Merced, CA, which was one of the initial collection points for detained Japanese Americans before they were put in the internment camps. We have a little memorial at the fair grounds, which is where they were collected up at. I've always believed that people 50, 100, 200, and 2000 years ago really aren't fundamentally different than people today, and anyone today who professes to be disgusted by Jim Crow but still embraces modern forms of oppression would have embraced Jim Crow back then. We're seeing that now. These folks, without even a second thought, will eagerly embrace Hispanic internment camps while denouncing the Japanese internment camps as something that never should have happened, and dismiss any semblance with a thought terminating "but this is different."

I thought everyone agreed the Japanese internment camps was a dark spot on our history.

They did, but a frightening percentage of the population were bothered that it didn't go far enough.

Edit: in other words, vastly different reasons why some thought it was a dark spot.

If that’s true, sounds like NOW is the time to ACT since we aren’t picking up anyone else. Right?

That fact is going to haunt me in the late hours of the day. I didn't think that the second standard deviation of political views equated to "absolutely batshit insane".

Day 100 of not letting it be forgotten that the republicans led a massive, distributed campaign of targeted vote rejection. They spent years getting true believers and laws and rules to support them put into place throughout states and counties, and it bore fruit. There was a disproportionately high number of ballot challenges this last election, and black folks got their ballots tossed a staggering 900% more often than white folks. There's likely a very large number of people who thought they voted in this last election and have no idea that their ballot got tossed. This is the real shit that that dumbfuck starlink conspiracy buried. I'm still in awe that the Kamalampaign just basically shrugged and went "okie dokie! Pack your bags, Katy Perry, party's over!" instead of doing the normal investigations, challenges, etc. Mind you, some of that IS normal, and double checking via the courts is a good thing to do; not like the Trump campaign and its like 300 bullshit ass claims, but more like ten or twelve claims with some actual weight.

There's the ostrich/head in the sand types who stay oblivious on purpose.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hands_Off_protests

I disagree that there’s no one doing anything. The largest protest in US history happened. And two motherfuckers tried to get him got. I obviously don’t endorse violence but it’s an action.