Indeed, he was a visionary. But we should always remember that it wasn't just the right he abominated. It was the excesses of the left as well. He wrote about the murderous Stalinist regime when almost no other progressive voice would because Stalin was our (the progressive's) guy. The pattern of lies and half-truths shouted until people give up thinking and accept them is fundamental to the revolutionary right and left. As is the division of society, turning one group against another. If anything, the progressives, my people, have been more guilty than the right in that respect lately. No progressive, was for identity politics until the New Left made it the mode in the late Sixties. It was alway about equality. About bringing the excluded into the mainstream, not about demonizing the majority of the country and celebrating difference. MLK would roll over in his grave if he saw what passes for progressivism today. Read anything he ever said. People can't honestly disagree anymore--if you deviate from the view that is somehow mysteriously deemed correct, by someone, somewhere, you're a fascist. For instance, a huge section of the center-left rejects the all encompassing gender re-definition that has somehow become the party line. But you're a fascist if you say that biological males shouldn't play contact sports with biological females. The right, the center right, and the center left agree this is madness, yet the far left tears the party apart over this debatable issue about a truly minute percentage of the public. We're not in for four years of this insanity--we're in for a generation of it, maybe more, because the far left has so insulted, belittle, demonized, and mocked the majority of the country, driving virtually the entire working class and LMC out of the Democratic party. The young men coming up have far more in common emotionally with Trump/Musk because the Democrats make it clear that they are despised by them.