The surest declaration of what people on the right have pointed out all along: the left is not interested in representative government, they are interested in power. When the rulebook by which our country has grown for 250 years interferes with their push for power, the answer is to throw out the rule book. When there are tens of millions of people who disagree strongly with their solutions, the answer is to declare those tens of millions of people "enemies of the state". This is actual fascism, as opposed to the glib way in which their allies throw the word around. We are looking at the actual mechanics that underlie the rise of a fascist form of governance. The party has absolute control, and those who disagree face an increasingly harsh range of sanctions. Those who don't see this are blinded by their own ideological "agreement" with the stated goals of the powerful, and their inability to recognize that those words do not represent the reality of what the powerful are doing. What they are doing is rapidly erecting the mechanics of a totalitarian state. The NYT is cheerleading this process in op-eds like this one.