I think the Robert Paxton definition applies pretty well here
"A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion."
The Trump administration and its liberal use of ICE's powers seems to me to check all of those boxes. The man himself is a pretty textbook fascist, with all that goes with it: Strongman politics, threatening to jail opponents and the press, severely racist.
The link below is not from a marginalized rando. It's from a man purported to be one of the leading conservative intellects in recent years, and he's attempting to rehabilitate Hitler. There is a real ethnonationalist fascist uprising in this country that has shoved its way back into the Overton window and isn't going away. The president is part of it.
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Link: https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/916318446387978240
Posted: 04/09/2018 at 12:06PM