I've had multiple friends ask to start training with me at my Muay Thai gym here in Brooklyn over the past week. At the very least self-defense is starting to cross people's minds.

Me. I am. Trump keeps making jokes about a third term, about not leaving, and about getting republicans to keep him in power. But there’s also that one that wasn’t a joke where he actually tried to stay in power by targeting the most symbolic moment of the electoral vote certification with a violent insurrection.

So yeah, it’s me. I’m calling him a fascist and I’ve been buying guns and gear because of it.

I mean, iirc the Germans were buying guns to fight Actual Communism and other far-left boogiemen they perceived to have infiltrated their political system.

The road from there to Actual Fascism was enabled and supported by a diverse working class coalition who was fed up with the status quo and in a dire economic situation.