This is one of the nasty cases of “multiple parties fucked up to let this happen, and all of them are to blame”. The fascists themselves obviously bear the most blame, followed by their enablers, including various media outlets that went terribly softball on one side while picking apart the other at every opportunity. The Dems’ continuous lurch to the right and resulting voter disillusionment also counts among those, the lack of education, the Reps’ skill at pinning all the issues they cause on the Dems…

The list is long. It also includes the voters who, faced with the question “genocide with or without fascism?” threw up their hands in frustration and said “Do whatever you want, go install the fascist for all I care” as well as the relentless “bOtH SiDeS” bullshit.

The Dems fucked up, badly and consistently. They deserve to lose their political standing, to be usurped by an actually progressive left wing party. But achieving that through a fash victory is like weeding your garden with incendiary bombs: Sure, it might burn away the visible part of the weeds, but it’ll probably kill the crop too and still leave an invisible part ready to become a nuisance in the future.