Couple of things. 1) As far as things "to do," I think Timothy Snyder offers a great primer in his book "On Tyranny," which offers as I recall 20 specific things we should be doing to fight the rise of fascism. I plan to read it again. 2) There was a point, when that immigrant caravan was being made to be a giant bugaboo of the right, where I read a quote from someone who was concerned about the vacation homes of them and their wealthy friends on Lake Michigan being occupied by these invaders and I just thought... even the people who you would ostensibly think would have a modicum of intelligence, are clearly stupid. (I mean, logistically, how were they even going to pick out these homes as a place to go, and also, does one even realize how absolutely small the, what was it, ten thousand people are against the size of the United States? Even if somehow we had to pay for those immigrant's lives for the next generation, which we absolutely would not have, it would have been less than a rounding error in the national budget. I mean, come on. A sense of freaking scale, people. But then, these were the same sorts of people who thought the odds of them being personally affected by a terrorist action in the year after 9/11 of being about 50%. Smart people knew that the odds, while never zero, were very very very close to zero, and those people were and remain right.) These stupidities I put in part down to human frailties (we are bad with large numbers unless specifically trained not to be) and in part down to a generations-long effort to diminish the capacity for rational thought among the general populous.