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Does this sound like the GOP and their putative leader?
1)Ideological formation and the creation of a party with quasi-military cadres. Talk of national humiliation, lost vigor, and the failures of liberalism and democracy.
2) Entry of the party into national politics. Intimidation of rivals, and planned acts of “redemptive violence” against suspect minorities and radical rivals.
3)Arrival in government, often in alliance with conservatives.
4) Exercise of power, in concert with institutions and business. The regime expands its control at home: restricting the press and democratic processes, corporatizing business, and collectivizing the people. Abroad, it asserts itself militarily.
5) Radicalization or entropy: Some fascists go down in a Götterdämmerung, but most die of boredom.''
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/12/fascism-populism-presidential-election/510668/
2) Entry of the party into national politics. Intimidation of rivals, and planned acts of “redemptive violence” against suspect minorities and radical rivals.
3)Arrival in government, often in alliance with conservatives.
4) Exercise of power, in concert with institutions and business. The regime expands its control at home: restricting the press and democratic processes, corporatizing business, and collectivizing the people. Abroad, it asserts itself militarily.
5) Radicalization or entropy: Some fascists go down in a Götterdämmerung, but most die of boredom.''
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/12/fascism-populism-presidential-election/510668/