The right refuses to listen to reason, so this is one of the outcomes.They've seized power illegitimately, and are doing everything possible to keep it, which includes dehumanizing and denigrating the press and the liberals. So what did Hitler do to make the Jews expendable? He dehumanized them via the doctrine of untermenschen. This idea of less than human is being spread all around the country, especially by the right wing media, which literally labels liberals as scum. These are classic examples of the psychological interplay between Persona and Shadow. The right currently busy foisting its Shadow upon its opponents. The press is the enemy of the people, they say. Liberals and the left are insane. All that is needed to shut the press down and toss those leftist crazies into solitary is the slightest excuse to declare martial law. Then they'll have it clinched. Laws will be passed making the doctrine of a 'Christian Nation' official. Once that is done, non-Christians will be ostracized in every walk of life, denying them their civil rights. There will be no end to the blood-letting. The modern tools of interrogation and surveillance will be unleashed full tilt upon the populace. No one will be safe from suspicion and scrutiny. The level of oppression will make Nazi Germany and The Inquisition look like chlld's play.
Maybe pick axe boy's action was an act of courage.
