Kind of like how he tried to withhold aid from cities and counties that were historically blue, both for wildfire relief and COVID?

"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."   
\~ Sinclair Lewis  

https://www.wearenotspecial.org/

[https://www.brookings.edu/articles/this-is-how-fascism-comes-to-america/](https://www.brookings.edu/articles/this-is-how-fascism-comes-to-america/)   
There is a reason Republicans keep saying "the U.S. is not a democracy, it is a republic". If you are going to try to take something away from people, the first step is to convince them that it wasn't really there in the first place.  
[https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/republic-democracy-mike-lee-astra-taylor.html](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/republic-democracy-mike-lee-astra-taylor.html)  
"Fuck Democracy": MAGA Republicans In Their Own Words  
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYIK4AFMetQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYIK4AFMetQ)    
Days after Trump won the Iowa GOP caucus, white supremacist leader Nick Fuentes spoke out about his loyalty to Trump — while giving a Nazi salute and discussing his willingness to commit extrajudicial violence for “Supreme Leader Trump.”  
[https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/after-previously-dining-trump-nick-fuentes-gives-nazi-salute-and-discusses-his?fbclid=IwAR3z3q\_-A65whisOcQ7-FtntCSeGDqnYmPYPtCkc3vzZj3gandzuW8JN1-c](https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/after-previously-dining-trump-nick-fuentes-gives-nazi-salute-and-discusses-his?fbclid=IwAR3z3q_-A65whisOcQ7-FtntCSeGDqnYmPYPtCkc3vzZj3gandzuW8JN1-c)   
"Hitler is the kind of leader we need today. We need somebody inspirational.”  
\~ Carl Paladino, right wing political activist and Republican congressional candidate  
[https://www.mediamatters.org/diversity-discrimination/carl-paladino-hitler-kind-leader-we-need-today-we-need-somebody?fbclid=IwAR1V1nprhRcgavVLwisOuFjqdCRfgnLnHznnsOX2heie6EfgSpvHme9Y2Bo](https://www.mediamatters.org/diversity-discrimination/carl-paladino-hitler-kind-leader-we-need-today-we-need-somebody?fbclid=IwAR1V1nprhRcgavVLwisOuFjqdCRfgnLnHznnsOX2heie6EfgSpvHme9Y2Bo)  
In the 2018 midterm election 56,000 Conservatives in Illinois voted for an outright Nazi.  
[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/11/07/holocaust-denier-neo-nazi-arthur-jones-chicago-illinois-dan-lipinski/1918933002/?fbclid=IwAR0d\_rFdnmg9h72hh55F84cw6AcC9N1h2\_naBi5RSA-es\_evEwbv0q8zIIc](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/11/07/holocaust-denier-neo-nazi-arthur-jones-chicago-illinois-dan-lipinski/1918933002/?fbclid=IwAR0d_rFdnmg9h72hh55F84cw6AcC9N1h2_naBi5RSA-es_evEwbv0q8zIIc)  
U.S. Neo-Nazi Leader: Trump Is the ‘Real Deal’  
[https://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/12/09/u-s-neo-nazi-leader-trump-is-the-real-deal](https://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/12/09/u-s-neo-nazi-leader-trump-is-the-real-deal)  
White nationalists mark Trump win with Nazi salute.  
[https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-38057104](https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-38057104)

**Trump wants to set up deportation camps**
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-deportation-camps_n_66e4793de4b03e3cc10020c3 

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-immigrant-serial-numbers/

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/03/politics/trump-revoke-status-ohio-haitian-migrants/index.html

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/09/trump-remigration-far-right-europe-immigration/

Wants to prosecute political rivals
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/20/trump-election-opponents-threats

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-focuses-migrants-crime-here-is-what-research-shows-2024-04-11/

GOP lawmaker admits to no voter fraud found
https://www.rawstory.com/glenn-grothman-voter-fraud/

Rasmussen secretly working to skew polls in Trump's favor 
https://newrepublic.com/post/186444/conservative-poll-rasmussen-secretly-worked-trump-team

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/michael-cohen-acknowledges-rigging-polls-for-trump-in-2014-and-2015

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-authoritarian-rhetoric-hitler-mussolini/680296/

Jewish and Catholic communities speaking out about Trump's religious "loyalty tests"
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-jewish-catholic-voters-religious-americans-c6b2c15a6019583b8afae4d496480469

Credit for first set of links: https://www.reddit.com/r/inthenews/s/Xcmp16bW6C