No surprise here.
Many boomers have warned of the "slide down the slippery slope of fascism" since the hippie Vietnam War era (1967-73).
 FDR warned in 1945, corporate takeover of government is the essence of fascism.
  Eisenhower warned in 1960 about "unwarranted power" of the military-industrial establishment.
  Noam Chomsky and others wrote books about "friendly fascism" in the 1980's.
   In 1991 when the Cold War ended, as the sole superpower, the US immediately began a war against Islamic nations. They called it "exceptionalism".
   The last 16 years of endless war, growing income disparities, deepening poverty, xenophobia, increasing power of multinational corporations over dysfunctional governments, are all part of growing fascism.

  You could see it coming from 50 years away.
    History repeats itself first as tragedy then as farce.
     Nixon was the fascist history; Dubya Bush was the fascist tragedy; Trump is the fascist farce.