American Authoritarian Conservatism, Rising

THE CURRENT QUESTION OF THE AGES remains: Precisely why, in the name of all sanity and decency, do millions of Americans, previously presumed to be good, intelligent people of high moral character,still support Donald Trump, despite his blatant, daily, vile behavior year in year out, decade after vile decade? The answer is that they want what he promises and offers: a demagogic, authoritarian president who can and will implement the conservative agenda in the United States, no matter what it takes, a persident willing, able and ready to circumvent and ignore normal democratic processes if necessary to install their right wing ideology in America, by excutive action alone. Its called "fascism", and it was basically invented by Julius Caesar, who swore up and down that he was not interfering with,damaging, or destroying the republican institutions of Rome,but rather, executing their wishes and desires as their representative, combining the authority of all offices and institutions in one powerful hand, a hand which holds a bundle of sticks held together with string, symbolizing these various offices and powers, the bundle being called a "fasci". Julius Caesar, simultaneously the Roman Tribune, Consul, Senate, and Chief Excutive, by his own pronouncement. In other words, an authoritarian leader, posied to become a dictator at any moment, like,Caesar, Hitler, and, potentially, Trump. Republicans, conservatives, Trump supporters no longer like democracy because they correctly perceive that the democratic process, if left in place, do not, and will never result in the American people democtatically voting the conservative agenda into effect. This conservatie agenda, as every one knows, includes abortion bans, book bans, Christianity as the officieal American national religion, American isolationism, elimitation of immigration into the U.S. except for white immigrants, and unfettered, uregulated corporate capitalism, including tax cuts for the wealthy and opposition to labor unions. A majority of the American people reject the conservative agenda. A vast majority of Trump supporters still wish the insurrection at the Capitol and Trump's attempt to overturn the election and remain in power, presumably as president for life, The Trump wing of the Republican party, which includes a large majority of all registered Repblicans, is essentially a fascist organiation, fascist in its ideology, and methods of achieving power. More than one third of all regisered Republicans say that the defense and preservation of the United States might very well requred violence in the future, and by ""violence", they mean and include political violence against fellow Americans, against progressives who threaten to or actually do achieve power. If, for example, Trump indeed gets the Rebublican presidential nomination, and if, for example, he starts to get convicted of multiple felonies at the same time, it is not beyond the realm of reasonable possibility that his supporters would organize highly, like the people who participated in the Capitol insurrection, and once again use violence to try to overrule Trump's felony convictions by force. After all, they've done it before; they've used highly organized violence to try to overthrow the American government, have Trump's supporters. Because of this, because of their history of political violence and their continued embrace of it, Trump and his supporters constitute the greatest threat to American democracy in decades, and, for the sake of American democracy, must be defeated.