For decades now the Republican Party has engaged in bad faith politics, used violence, intimidation, and paranoia as weapons, flirted with blatant fascism as an ideology, all while Democrats have called for decorum and begged the media to play referee.

It wasn't enough.

One of the biggest mistakes was pretending like the Republicans were serious about their principles. They never have been.

Abortion, limited government, school choice, fiscal conservatism.

These were political cudgels hiding white patriarchal supremacy.

The Republican platform has always been a smokescreen and the motivating issue has always been desegregation and the protection of white patriarchal supremacy.

Decades and decades of GOP think-tanks and strategists have worked overtime to hide the racism and misogyny.

And the myth of American Exceptionalism allowed the Right to force Democrats to always hide behind the rhetoric of how great America is, how the universe moves in a moral direction.

It was a strategy of capturing people and limiting their ability to protest and change.

Here's the truth: American demographics have been moving toward this moment for decades. White supremacy was endangered by democracy and so white supremacists began destroying democracy.

This is what's happening. Pure and simple. See it. Recognize it.

Donald Trump isn't the disease, he's a symptom. Simply defeating him in November isn't enough. The GOP has been corrupted through and through with a fascistic, white supremacist drive for power at all costs.

This is a much, much larger fight, and it's time we saw it.

Our politics have been sick for a long, long time and hiding behind illusory debates and propagandized history.

We haven't been faced with the reality of the situation but now it's becoming clear. The GOP will not act in good faith because good faith means the end of their power

Any conversation about our political moment is lacking if we don't recognize what we're dealing with.

Fascism.

A weaponized nostalgia and purposeful paranoia that legitimizes the destruction of democracy and preemptive violence.

This isn't Red vs. Blue, Left vs. Right.

It's liberal democracy under direct attack by a fascistic movement that knows liberal democracy means its total destruction.

This is a societal, existential crisis and we don't have time to be in denial about it anymore.