

It hasn’t been for a long time. SCOTUS already declared Trump king, and Congress has completely abdicated its constitutional role to remove lawless presidents.
Trump is the most obvious symptom, but the underlying cancer is a deep-seated streak of fascination with authoritarianism in this country.
It’s easy to forget this, since the United States ultimately sided against the Axis powers in WWII, but there has always been a sizeable contingent of full-throated fascism supporters in this country.
They’ve spent decades honing their messaging and figuring out how to break the minds of Americans, and Trump is the culmination of that project.
Indeed. We’ve forgotten our history on many levels, and as such, we’re looking pretty well doomed to repeat it.