Sadly all you need is a whipped up cause, some gullibility, and a whipped up cause. Way too many esp white Americans into that toxic GOP sponsored "cool aid" as already put. Netflix has a series called The Making of a Tyrant, lots of good examples, esp the worst in history. US has it "tame" compared to most of that, but you can't miss some comparisons.
I strongly suspect it's a security flaw in the code of the human genome, and that ideological malware authors have exploited this for eons.
Sadly all you need is a whipped up cause, some gullibility, and a whipped up cause. Way too many esp white Americans into that toxic GOP sponsored "cool aid" as already put. Netflix has a series called The Making of a Tyrant, lots of good examples, esp the worst in history. US has it "tame" compared to most of that, but you can't miss some comparisons.
It's daunting how frequently the tricks of the tyrant's trade take hold.