If you don't actively support, in word and deed and thought, natural rights and individual liberty, you are their enemy.
Compromising those ideals, no matter for how seductive a reason, makes you their opponent.
> Yeah, misguided in the way that many ordinary Germans were in the 30’s and 40’s. <
That is a very provocative statement. Unfortunately, it really does apply to America today. The left of years ago opposed the right, but they didn’t hate the right. Democrat Tip O’Neill had many pleasant conversations with Republican Ronald Reagan.
But today’s left hates the right. The left says that anyone on the right is more than just wrong. He’s also a hater, a racist, a monster.
And the left will do violence against against anyone who disagrees with them. Then they justify that violence.
So you’re right. America is entering a period like 1930’s Germany.