Pinochet didn't start by murdering thousands of people on day one.

It takes time and work to dismantle every part of the system that will stop you from doing that. Less time in weak democracies, more time in stronger ones.

The republican party is currently doing it's traitorous best to turn Trump into an above-the-law-king, and to turn the country into a place where nobody could stop him from doing that. Every one of them is complicit.

Not all authoritarian regimes are fascist. Pinochet and Videla regimes were more military juntas and bureaucratic-authoritarian states.

Perhaps attempted fascism is also bad.

So should we wait for it? Is avoiding the embarrassment of calling a Fake Fascist a fascist worth it? Whats the EV on that decision? What’s the body count going to need to be before it’s Real Fascism?

I wasn’t aware fascism was defined by a body count.