The fascists advanced their project in plain sight by convincing cis-het white people they were only after undesirable niche groups like "criminals," knowing they assume deviance and criminality on the part of trans, Black, brown, homeless, and other marginalized people by default.
White America stood back and allowed due process, privacy, and the rule of law to be systematically destroyed in the name of fighting bogeymen like "crime" and "terrorism." And of course, some people made a fortune.
One of the disquieting things that passed relatively unnoticed in recent memory was when the government at every level, federal, state, and local, both political parties, and numerous universities collectively decided that even white, affluent, Ivy League college students could be clubbed into submission by riot cops just for protesting a genocide being carried out by a foreign government.
The wealthy white elite were willing to beat, maim, jail, and potentially kill their own kids over this.
@gwynnion I'm sorry. Middleclass students and young people having the shit beat out of them and sometimes MADE DEAD, ISN'T NEW. Just new to YOU.