There are dangerous seasons in history where conditions are right for the currents of deception and evil to form a powerful, destructive storm (e.g., just before WWI).
I don't think we're there yet (then again neither did most Germans in 1934). But when hatred becomes emboldened (e.g., as we're seeing against Asian-Americans right now), old anti-Semitic tropes become fashionable yet again, the dangers of authoritarianism are forgotten by a generation that hasn’t bled fighting it, suspicion allows spreaders of fear and slanderous conspiracies to turn us against our neighbors (e.g., physicians, journalists, victims of school shootings, immigrants, Muslims), the lies of one man and his sycophants are trusted over the consensus of the global scientific community during the worst pandemic in a century.
Nazis aren’t afraid to march in our streets or wear “Camp Auschwitz Staff” or “6 Million Was Not Enough” (referring to the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust) shirts while they storm our Capitol and feel free to livestream from inside.
More than 70% of one party believes, despite 60+ lost court cases, that an election was stolen in a conspiracy so masterful that its perpetrators didn’t leave a shred of evidence, but not masterful enough for them to interfere with the very same ballots to rig the results for any office other than president, and attempts to hold accountable those who’ve incited much of the above with their rhetoric and lies are resisted with infinitely more energy than was devoted to fighting the virus that’s claimed nearly half a million American lives.
I’d say we have a problem.