Dope1: We’ve had a Trump Presidency and despite a lot of paranoid ravings on this board…it wasn’t anything like fascism.

Umm, c'mon.

1. Trump used threats of violence to try to regain power. Find me 11,000 votes or you could be in legal jeopardy. Stand back and stand by. Fight like hell or you won't have a country anymore. Full indemnity for police. His political opponents are vermin who need to be rooted out. Shoplifters will be shot if I'm reelected.

2. Trump says he'll consolidate power by only hiring loyalists in a second term. In October 2020, he issued an executive order to give himself the power to fire 50,000 civil servants.

3. Trump demonizes his enemies. Immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.” There will be a "blood bath" if he loses the election. He will deploy troops to deport 11 million immigrants. And he's promoted the Great Replacement theory.

4. Trump says he'll send his opponents to prison. Obama, Clinton, the Biden family, and anyone else who he deems an enemy. “As we completely overhaul the federal Department of Justice and FBI, we will also launch sweeping civil rights investigations into Marxist local district attorneys.”

5. Trump has undermined a free press for years now, calling them “the enemy of the people.”

So, yeah, he's been taking steps toward fascism for years and they've been pretty much in plain sight.