In the American fascist model, the theoretical, financial and propaganda organs developed before the paramilitary ones, but the general pattern is the same. The ultimate goal is to silence Liberals (and Conservatives opposed to the trend) by using the threat of direct violence. Up to now, the most successful efforts have been visited on the Black and Jewish community, Hispanics and Muslims resisted, but are expected to start feeling the heat soon enough. So far, he has not been able to really field a true goon squad that will go to the streets for him, but he has enough cooperation to deliver an implied threat and a coercive effect to his enemies. Up to now, that, self-censorship and false equivalence has been enough. The Moderate and Left-wing press have not been silenced, but they have been neutralized.

All the rest will come after a failed impeachment attempt, and perhaps a successful election, will make it very difficult for those who see the parallels with 20th century fascism to put a stop to it. Keep your eyes open for something akin to the Red Guards and Cultural Revolution to arise to establish and enforce orthodoxy and defend “Amerikan Values”. In Castro’s Cuba they had the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution. Their function was more domestic espionage than street fighting or political correctness, but the idea is the same: to enlist his more zealous followers as part of the surveillance and enforcement apparat.

Right now Trump has been re-tweeting and linking to independent agents for this material, but I suspect he will soon be relying on the Kremlin Online Graphic Arts and Marketing department for it instead. The Russians have learned a lot from our public relations, business lobbies and advertising industries, but their major contribution was to move these arts from the commercial to the political arena. The American online media platforms have already shown themselves more than willing to cooperate, its a real money-maker for them. Treason fits right in with their business model.