“Cynical” does not begin to cover the pogrom that is being enacted against those who really thought America was a “good place”, and that the American Experiment in representative government is still evolving toward a more nearly perfect union.
The forces of reaction are trying to reset the territory once known as the United States of America back into some medieval fiefdom, dominated by strong men and maintained through chicanery and occasional treachery.
Command-and-control seems to be such an EFFICIENT form of government, at first.