One of the strangest things about human nature--at least that I've seen--is that when we vehemently resist something we detest we often produce its mirror image.
It's honestly extremely frightening to think that making a political donation to a major-party candidate you support could cost you your livelihood in this country. Those are not the principles America was founded on. (It's not even like McCarthyism anymore where they were persecuting a small minority party. We want to blacklist people for being __Republican__? Really?)
This is exactly how Democracy becomes eroded and one party systems emerge. And the fact that more people don't see that is quite chilling.
What's that old American saying? Something like: "I disagree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." That's the America I grew up in. What happened to it?