@Remittancegirl @AnneTheWriter1 @corruptian
In the here "since forever" vein:
I've been listening to Rachel Maddow's "Ultra 2" podcast ("ultra" is a right-wing term from decades back in the US), and how distressingly familiar now is the pattern of racist, fascist-friendly, perpetually lying, and dangerous, "populism" she describes in the likes of Joseph McCarthy and his supporters.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rachel-maddow-presents-ultra/id1647910854