Here's #Sharlet's take on creeping fascism from #Undertow

“... objections to describing militant Trumpism as fascist have fallen away. ... the movement his presidency quickened now cultivates paramilitaries and glorifies violence as a means of purification, thrives on othering its enemies, declares itself persecuted for “Whiteness,” diagnoses the nation as decadent, and embraces the revisionist myth of a MAGA past - as exemplified in its dream of adding Trump’s likeness to Mount Rushmore.”