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Echoes of history, how fascism quietly seizes control. President Biden told the nation,

quote, American democracy is under attack by the former president of the United States.

I wrote about this years ago when Trump was trying to overthrow our government, and it's time to

talk again about what an American authoritarian government would look like.

Because over the next two months we made, depending on how Americans react to the changes in our form of government Trump has planned,

very rapidly slide into a state-by-state form of fascism, much like the old Confederacy in the 1840 to 1860 era.

Like the old Confederacy, it could feature political violence and threats of violence, rigged elections, and single-party rule combined with a corrupt

oligarchy that finances the politicians. And like the old Confederacy, it could reach out and try

to destroy the historic democracy of the United States, only this time in

2025 and the three following years. The word fascism gets thrown around a lot, but most Americans

have no idea what it would look like or how it would actually play out. It's critical to lay out what

a fascist America would look like now because this is what's being envisioned

right now by many in the Republican Party and it might come to pass in the course of the next year or two.

Republicans don't like, excuse me, don't talk about it out loud very much, but unlike Nixon's man,

G. Gordon Liddy, who used to embrace fascism back in the day when he signed memos using

Hitler's SS symbol. But there is a model here, and Maga Republicans do have something in mind.

What could it be? What would it look like? How will it most likely come about?

First, and essential to American fascism, Republicans envision a strongman, dear leader who will hold power

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