"We have entered an uncertain new era. The door is now wide open to the kinds of fascism and authoritarianism we spent much of the 20th century and hundreds of thousands of American lives combatting overseas."
You have to wonder what choices WW2 veterans and their families would have made if, upon returning Stateside, they learned their children and grandchildren would become the same fascists and Nazis they just finished fighting and losing years, innocence, friends and family to.
"authoritarianism we spent much of the 20th century... combatting overseas", just uh, don't ask about what we've been up to in South & Central America and the Caribbean...