The killing of Matteoti with impunity was widely believed to be ordered by Mussolini.
And this drove home the lesson that he could murder anyone who crossed him.
And that more than any other one thing helped make him a tyrant.
Trump has not yet been given impunity for murder by the courts or by the congressional Republicans, but if and when they do it, especially if for a real or supposed political murder, that will do it.
If you through your minions can kill your political opponents with impunity and everyone knows it, you are there.
That would not make him a fascist or the Republicans fascists.
Fascism is an ideology justifying tyranny, executive absolutism and not merely authoritarianism, as a political principle.
Neither Bozo nor the Republicans espouse any such ideology.
But they may yet espouse the thing.
He is already close with his idiotic bullshit about Article II of the Constitution.
And they, the congressional Republicans, are already so very, very close to condoning and covering for absolutely anything.
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