No doubt conservatives will seize on your use of "fascism" to attack this article as inaccurate. It's important to define terms and choose them carefully to give them less ammunition. The basic premise of this article, that we are witnessing an "authoritarian takeover of America," is solid. You point to obvious evidence in suppressing dissent and former CIA officials sounding the alarm. The RW critics are more likely to focus on the use of mixed terminology in an effort to paint the entire argument as false. They're not prone to arguing in good faith. We must attend to details to make their trolling jobs more difficult.