Again, Black people are an exception here, as basically anyone who stayed in the Jim Crow South has a living memory of living under what amounted to fascism, including the “always walking on eggshells/lack of social trust/long periods of boring endurance/randomized terrifying violence”
Pretty much. What it mostly boils down to is that most Americans really don’t have the faintest idea what living under modern authoritarian regimes actually looks like, and how it’s often at the same time way more boring and way more scary than they’d imagined.
With the advent of an accelerated/deregulated tech industry (for capitalism!) and the “post-truth” of conspiracy theory/authoritarian fanboy talking heads like Ben Shapiro and Candace Owens, even the poorest are rooting for their own subjugation. Thinking it won’t apply to them if they support it.
