@tommythorn
I don't know if it'll make you feel any better but it's been building for decades. Smaller things around the edges mostly held at bay by social norms. Trump's election after openly courting white nationalists online where the majority of voters didn't notice made his people think the norms had changed. It reinforced their belief that most people agree with them but are afraid to admit it. That's why it exploded into the open all at once.