I wanted add another comment concerning
so called American conservatives, they are not conservative for they do not wish to conserve American democracy but to control and eventually replace it. That is most evident today in the republican party's work to control voting. Pay attention folks.
'Donald Trump’s Fascist Performance'
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-c...st-performance
"The president [Trump] is a nationalist, [fascist] which is not at all the same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best. A nationalist, 'although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge,' wrote Orwell, tends to be 'uninterested in what happens in the real world.' Nationalism is relativist, since the only truth is the resentment we feel when we contemplate others. As the novelist Danilo Kiš put it, nationalism 'has no universal values, aesthetic or ethical.' A patriot, by contrast, wants the nation to live up to its ideals, which means asking us to be our best selves. A patriot must be concerned with the real world, which is the only place where his country can be loved and sustained. A patriot has universal values, standards by which he judges his nation, always wishing it well—and wishing that it would do better." Timothy Snyder 'On Tyranny'
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33917107-on-tyranny
'Twelve signs Trump would try to run a fascist dictatorship in a second term'
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlo...0fb_story.html
'Far-right populism is much more common, and much more dangerous, than neo-fascism'
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2015/12/10/9886152/donald-trump-fascism"First, democracy is more than holding elections; it requires the development of civil society, meaning such complex and counterintuitive institutions as the rule of law, an independent judiciary, multiple political parties, minority rights, voluntary associations, freedom of expression, movement, and assembly. Democracy is a learned habit, not an instinctive one, that requires deep attitudinal changes such as a culture of restraint, a commonality of values, a respect for differences of view, the concept of loyal opposition, and a sense of civic responsibility." Daniel Pipes