By that point, Trump's campaign was in full swing, and it was clear to me exactly how many people I knew who would buy in to fascism if it said the right buzzwords. I was studying South Africa, at the time. The rise of aparthied. The newspaper articles about the National Party, before taking power.

All of them were about how ridiculous these people were, how incompetent. Articles about how they'd never be able to take power, they were a joke, not worth considering. And then they took over for half a century. And I wasn't feeling good.