> attempts to strip rights from gay people; if nothing else, I _am_ one While we can debate the merits of that and people have strong feelings on that, even th

> attempts to strip rights from gay people; if nothing else, I _am_ one While we can debate the merits of that and people have strong feelings on that, even that would not be a sign of our democracy's failure. It would be a sign that we are culturally swinging back on the pendulum... about 16 years to Obama's first term. Obama was vocally against legalization in 2008. That's not the end of the world, an Iranian revolution, a sign the pendulum of democracy is broken, or a reason to panic that it won't come back in the future. Democracy has never been, and is not required to be, the overly simplistic view of a straight line. For the record, even if I disagree with Trump, he would not be a fascist for holding the 2008 position of Obama, any more than Obama was a fascist at the time. And he doesn't even hold that position - Trump is not running on restricting gay marriage. Even if his judges did, to call them fascist for stepping back a decade and a half, just waters-down the term fascist.