We have to work backwards. The present illuminates the past.
The white supremacy & authoritarianism didn't pop up over night.
Trump is not an anomaly. He is the culmination.
We are not facing a new threat. We are facing a very old enemy which has recently had to become more openly vicious to combat new challenges to its entrenched power.
MAGA & the open embrace of fascism are "America" getting back to its roots.