Mike, you must know you live in a bubble in MA. So do I out here on the liberal left coast near Seattle. It's all the flyover states (except Colorado) where you would get bullied, harassed or even jailed for being black or putting a Coexist sticker on the back of your Prius. You know this right?
On the Fascist thing, I feel like we've crested from the peak of the worst chance in recent history of falling into fascism. That was right after we booted Trump out of office. I kept waiting for them to organize something or blow up something but nothing happened. You know why? Things just aren't that bad. They talk a big game, but do they really want to die for this cause? Maybe travel thousands of miles to get shot trying to storm the Capitol again? No, because most of them are just LARPers playing out a video game in their head...