But millions of people did not, in fact, go to bed reluctant liberals and wake up fascists. Rather, many who were never liberal to begin with, who never liked liberals, and whose coexistence with liberals was always temporary, strategic, and contingent, decided that they were no longer willing to live alongside us. From this perspective, the problem is catastrophic, but at least conceptualizable. Fascism is terrifying, but terrestrial.

From Toby Buckle, Liberalism Did Not Fail, Conservatism Did in Liberal Currents.