Any non-hard-right reading of history suggests that the New Deal, and the basic infrastructure of U.S. politics it created, was a compromise that allowed human beings to live with capitalism. The only alternatives in the 1930s were (on the right) some form of fascism that would keep capitalism but eliminate democracy, or (on the left) dismantling capitalism and trying something wholly different.

Key insight here. The right in the US has struggled for decades to decide what kind of order they want instead of the compromise solution of social democracy, and it seems finally they are finally comfortable with admitting it’s fascism. Clear to see now with the abandonment of seeking a common good for all, a teetering democratic process, ever more politicized judges, and ramped up fascist rhetoric.