- Concentration of power in the executive, dismantling checks and balances

- Hyper-nationalism and white supremacist messaging

- Scapegoating of minorities

- Attacks on the press

- Attacks on constitutional rights

- Militarization of police, violence normalized

- Expansion of surveillance state

- Combination of state and corporate power

- Strongman authoritarianism

- Historical revisionism

- Interference in elections

Cheers!

It turned.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/america-fascism-tr...

This article goes through point by point.