right now

I mean…

• J6
• QAnon
• Unite the Right
• Back The Blue (et al)
• Chutkan swatting
• Pelosi attack
• Whitmer plot
• Malheur
• Gamergate
• Birtherism
• Tea Party
• Patriot Act
• Snowden
• Abu Ghraib
• George Lincoln Rockwell
• John Birch Society
• Goldwater
• Reagan (and hell, the ways Carter teed him up)
• Nixon
• That whole white nationalist enclave project in the remote Northwest
• …

I think in many ways the people who paid attention are the least surprised.