Of course there were. But people today don’t have a living memory of facism and how few it can take to set the whole thing up.
That is what the majority of voters are.
The democrat party, of which the media is the right arm, lives and breathes emotional high notes. They have perfected the technique.
A few words above the fold or on the 6 oclock news, and anybody not with them 100% is pure evil.
People are too damn lazy to get up and think for themselves, many forgot how to rub a few neurons together and create a thought.
Glurp glurp, gimmie my 20 bucks an hour for stacking books on the city library shelves, and my 25 days paid each year, and them damn republicans, why they want to take away my health care, my reproductive rights, my buck fifty a gallon gas (all bush cheney's fault, used to be the reaganbush before that, damn oil companies!)
The country is going down the shiite hole and people simply vote themselves another chunk of monies, because there is an endless supply, and them wascally wepublicans want poor folks to starve.
Meanwhile the greatest coup is right on schedule, right in front of the nation's, and the entire world's, eyes.