It hit me, of all reasons, from watching 300 again (because some time away from all this is absolutely helpful, the stupider the better). And it got to the scene where Xerxes offers Leonidas unlimited power if only he kneeled. I heard much of the modern Left (especially the high elite) in what Xerxes was saying and how they were acting. And remember, at the end of the movie when Leonidas knicks him with a javelin and causes him to bleed, he starts losing his shit and starts to leave from his own delusions about godhood.
It hit me, of all reasons, from watching 300 again (because some time away from all this is absolutely helpful, the stupider the better). And it got to the scene where Xerxes offers Leonidas unlimited power if only he kneeled. I heard much of the modern Left (especially the high elite) in what Xerxes was saying and how they were acting. And remember, at the end of the movie when Leonidas knicks him with a javelin and causes him to bleed, he starts losing his shit and starts to leave from his own delusions about godhood.
Then the events in DC went down, and it clicked.