The article is exactly this sentiment: the experience of how how evil takes over isn’t sudden, it’s insidious and slow and happens by inches. Those around you are not crying wolf, they understand history.

You’re wasting your breath. If people are going to claim democracy is being dismantled but only by republicans, then they’re a lost cause

Lots of people on the left who believe Bush was the worst president this country has seen in recent history, that Obama largely continued Bush’s foreign policy, and that Trumps co-conspiracy with billionaires may end up similarly to a Boris Yeltsin in the US, with large amounts of the state apparatus sold to the highest bidder or most loyal, trampling on the rights and safety net offered by the govt in the process (and likely will be no better on foreign policy, given he wants to turn Gaza into "The Riviera of the Middle East"). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Don’t really sympathize with the whining about hypocrisy or how you claim to be personally victimized by people who are hypocrites.

Sometimes it do be that simple.