Shrugging Our Way to Fascism

People are spending their day today clutching their pearls being shocked, SHOCKED!! at Trump's Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden last night, but I am not one of those people. For about a year now I've been telling everybody there's absolutely ZERO reason for Trump to do anything but declare himself to be a fascist dictator, including last November:

The fact is there's absolutely no reason for him to do anything but announce that his second term will be a full-on authoritarian one without end fueled by his own petty grievances and personal greed. He can LITERALLY say he intends to hold the same power as Hitler and he'd instantly have at least 65 75 million votes to start with. There is no incentive for him to even pretend he's going to try and have a "normal" second term as president, as he's been greatly rewarded every time he's blathered openly about his desires for fascism. He's told us repeatedly that the second he gets a chance he'll support Putin's thirst to restore the Soviet states et al, meaning that within a few short years we can find ourselves replaying World War II except this time we'd be on what was the Axis's side (and that's how shit like this happens). This is the ultimate "Go Big or Go Home!" moment in world history; Trump is becoming more and more clear that he either gets to be Hitler x Mussolini x Putin etc or he'll just go back to Mar-a-Lago and bitch & moan while ruling the GOP with an iron fist whiles the media splooges themselves every time he waves his stubby fingers around to say something. There is no in-between, and the media breathlessly setting up any other scenario is just false and irresponsible, which unfortunately for democracy has become de riguer for them.