Excellent and vital points Richard. I have to admit that even I, who has been warning about fascism for decades, was taken aback by how seemingly overnight the GOP became the Gestapo Operatives Party. But then I began to notice that folks like David Eastman were part of the old guard. Ever since their Southern Strategy worked for Nixon, they have been playing the invisible race card, and the religious card of course. But the dog whistles are now bull horns. Yes indeed, we need to wake-up and smell the jackboot polish on the back of our necks. So many of us are like the Jews who stayed even after kristallnacht, "oh it can't happen here". It already is happening.