‘The safeguards that kept trump in check during his first term have collapsed — starting with the MAGA-fication of the Republican Party. “We know from the first administration that trump was an amateur and lots of people stopped his most radical actions,” says Jason Stanley, a Yale professor and author of How Fascism Works. He underscores that trump’s darkest ambitions were present from the beginning — from the Muslim ban to the coup attempt of Jan. 6. “The only thing that stopped him from being a full-on dictator was other people,” Stanley says. “We know that that’s not going to happen anymore.”…’ (via Rolling Stone)