Republicans want to eradicate LGBT people and they're not hiding it

Many Americans who should have known better were slow to pick up on the warning signs of fascism, which have been obvious for years.

Whenever signs of rising fascism were signaled, centrists, who controlled with an iron grip both the Democratic Party until recently and the punditocracy, would often dismiss such concerns with Godwin's Law, issue warnings about "unhelpful exaggeration", mouth pieties about "civility" and, most pernicious of all, engage in morally repugnant both sides-ism.

Now, it is crystal clear that much of the right wants nothing less than the eradication of LGBT people. The "mainstream" (whatever that means these days) of the right will deny say, couching their bigotry and oppression under the vile deceit of protecting children. But some of their ilk - here's an example - drops the pretense and utters right-wing's vicious intentions out loud.

It's long past time we believe them.

People's fundamental humanity is well beyond the privilege of "agree to disagree."