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For me, it's living in a failed country, suffering through the daily consequences of decades of neoliberalism (aka soft imperialism), followed by fascism. It's having to argue for basic civil rights with most of the people in my life only to have a whole other group of people argue that their actions brought fascism now to avoid worse fascism later. Wow, what a brilliant plan. Let's hear more about how accelerating our problems is going to fix them. We could've had 4 more years of neoliberalism and continued to let the progressive caucus grow. But sure, death and destruction is better.. Somehow..
See, now that's interesting. There was only one major organized movement around a policy change during the election, and it wasn't about the timing of implementing fascism.
And it lost, as the policy did not change.
Even today the losing party is taking the Whig party strategy of trying to avoid the issue. The Whigs famously failed as a party and ultimately allowed Slavery to spiral as an issue until America Civil Warred over it.