"At this moment in history, arguing that the Left is more dangerous than the Right is like arguing that tuberculosis is more dangerous than the plague"

"[S]ome of my pro-Trump acquaintances ... dismiss ... my anti-Trump points with phrases along the lines of that’s just Leftist propaganda, or I don’t pay attention to what the mainstream media says about Trump.There’s an old cliche, 'You’re entitled to your own opinion, but you’re not entitled to your own facts.'...

"Something has seriously gone amiss in your psyche if you can watch an American president literally roll out a red carpet for a mass-murdering dictator, seize control of private companies, issue capricious tariff edicts that greatly increase the tax burden on Americans, or send an innocent man to a hellhole in El Salvador without a trial, and your response is Best President Ever. ...

"[I]t’s silly to argue about how dangerous the Left is right now. The Left are not in power! They are not the side with millions of 'fools' who believe a con man is the literal saviour of [America]. ... At this moment in history, arguing that the Left is more dangerous than the Right is like arguing that tuberculosis is more dangerous than the plague — during an outbreak of the plague. ...

"[Yet t]hey would much rather focus on the terrible things the Left might do if they were in power. Never mind that all Trump’s actions to expand the power of the executive branch are likely to be used by the Left in the future, thus ensuring that the horrors they imagine actually will come to pass.

"And the saddest part of all is that it didn’t have to be this way. If the Republicans actually cared a whit about freedom ... they could have used this rare opportunity when they hold the reins of power to shrink government spending, bolster the rule of law, preserve the separation of powers, and pass actual legislation that moves us in the direction of more freedom. But today’s Right doesn’t care about any of those things, and by supporting them [they] decimated the liberty movement . ...

"If America as we have known it is to be saved, it is today’s values of collectivism, subjectivism, and sacrifice that must be fought. Those values are being now promulgated by the Right just as much as the Left. ...[W]e can and should be fighting for the principles of freedom, individualism, and reason. Neither Trump nor today’s Republicans represent any of these ideals — and to imagine they do is just that: imagination."

~ Stewart Margolis from his post 'Silent No More'