You gotta have villains, perceived or real. You gotta have an enemy, even if that enemy is a non-existent manufacture.
==
I am having trouble keeping all of the new groups identified — who is on which side?
I recall during the election cycle, Team Clinton started attacking what they called the Alt-Right. Most listeners were going ‘huh? who’dat?’ Clinton is famous for finger-pointing as far back as that Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy that attacked her hubby.
Then, there is the Antifa. Are they friend or foe or what the heck are they?
Isn’t one the Alinksy rules something about ‘naming’ a villain?
Then, all of the sudden there is are White Nationalists. Are they from the skinhead/KKK branch of humanity?
Commentators, newsies, pundits are quite adept at throwing around terms like ‘fascist’ and ‘Nazi’. Do they even have any idea what those terms mean? It is rather ironic that many of those throwing around those terms go into meltdown mode at the mention of ‘radical’ Islam or Islamist terrorism.
We almost need a cheat sheet to know who is who, who is the villain and who is the saint.