The implied narrative is that the left was at fault simply for being the left and opposing the Glorious Leader. That idea is nothing more nor less than the argument of the schoolyard bully that the victim was “asking for it.”
Alas, some schoolyard bullies essentially wind up controlling the school - because all the students fear the bully so much that they’'ll toady to him, and the bulliy’s parents are psychopaths that the administrators fear. Some of these grow up to be CEO’s and prominent politicians.
I surely hope not, because if it is, we are so screwed. We’ve dismantled the rail system. The aviation system can’t support our flow of bulk goods. A majority of truckers are Trumpistas. (The Teamsters’ Union itself is schizophrenic; trying to support the Democrats against Republican union-busting while still trying to support fascism. In any case, most truckers are non-union.). At the start of the second civil war, the food stops flowing into the cities. How long before they starve out the besieged?
