I'd say about 80% of Republicans will enthusiastically support anything the GOP does
That's the maximum size of the population that could be considered violent fascists, so even if they all are invested enough to actually do something violent (they won't be), that's still "just" 20% of the voting-eligible population.
The real strength of fascists comes if they can capture the state and use its legitimacy to get their more passive supporters (and libs) to go along with state violence, or at least not violently oppose it.
The U.S. has long applied this towards the outside world (imperialism), but the frontier is getting closer and closer to home.
Yea the "Russian interference" would be taken a lot less seriously if people were honest and called it what it was.
Posting stupid racist Facebook memes was enough to convince enough Americans to make a difference to vote for Trump.
To this day liberals insist every racist dumbass is a Russian troll instead of accepting the fact 40% of the country are violent fascists.
Being optimistic:
That's the maximum size of the population that could be considered violent fascists, so even if they all are invested enough to actually do something violent (they won't be), that's still "just" 20% of the voting-eligible population.
The real strength of fascists comes if they can capture the state and use its legitimacy to get their more passive supporters (and libs) to go along with state violence, or at least not violently oppose it.
The U.S. has long applied this towards the outside world (imperialism), but the frontier is getting closer and closer to home.
Maximum suffering against the apolitical. How dare they be predisposed to fascism by not thing about politics.
The other 50% are impotent fascists