It is time for U.S. citizens to take responsibility for the political past of the United States. Ending genocide and its concomitant violence against women will be a long and difficult process, but one critical step is clear: The U.S. must allow Guatemalans, whose lives have been torn apart by U.S. involvement in their country, to safely enter the U.S. They should be supported through the process of applying for asylum and rebuilding their lives. This will not make up for what the U.S. government has taken from them, but it will help to bring stability to the U.S.-Mexico border (and beyond). What happened to Claudia Patricia Gómez González should never happen to anyone again.
What they did have were a) delusional minorities of violent fascists, and b) silent majorities who were too polite, scared, or comfortable to ever speak out. To speak out on the terms that needed to spoken. To say this is fascism.
The silent majority has been seen in country after country that has had a fascist meltdown. Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Russia. And of course Germany, too. None of these places had majorities that were ardent fascists — not even Weimar Germany.