His presidency showed many of the characteristics of a fascist dictatorship, except the crucial one of automatic re-election.
Two strategies, though never entirely absent from Republican behaviour in the past, have become far more central to their approach.
This is the systematic Republican takeover of the electoral machinery that oversees elections and makes sure that they are fair.
The Republican Party across the country is replacing or intimidating them so they are giving up their jobs or are being forced from their posts.
Republican officials who refused to say that Trump won the election are being removed by their party.
Nullification of elections is only the latest step in the Republican Party’s strange voyage towards becoming a genuine fascist party.
The old slave states became the strongholds of the Republican Party which had once freed the slaves and defeated the Confederacy. »