Im convinced voting can be cancelled, people rounded up for mass extrajudicial execution and media will still be running headlines about "our declining democracy"

This is part of the reason why so many on the right are labeling any use of "fascism" as dangerous rhetoric -- to remove the ability to discuss current happenings in a more meaningful way.

Came here to say this as well. We’re not test running for authoritarian, we’re in it. Now we’re just testing to see what the backlash is and how far and fast we can push it.

Seriously. Should just say "is next incremental step down the path."

Liberals in the Democratic party have spent the last several decades "working with the right" to "get things done". The only methods they know are to praise their bipartisan compromise.

They are just continuing what they have always been. A controlled opposition party that points to problems but never does anything to solve them. They were once the one step forward to the conservatives two steps back. But over the last decade that has changed. The conservatives stopped letting steps be taken forward and stopped playing the game they both benefited from.

So Fascism is here and all the liberals can do is point at things. Their role now is to normalize each step backwards. To be the party saying "hey, that's not legal!" or "hey, this is bad". It gives the greater population the feeling of normalcy as this has always been their role.

It makes the fascism feel like it's just "another 4 years" and something to be waited out. The liberals are filling their own role to bring about fascism. And that role is in a passive opposition pretending that the existing systems are still something that can be restored. The very systems that brought about the rise of fascist in the first place.

Are we already past the point of no return?

Well, if we talk about it here we get banned. I also think a lot of people just assume it’s all going to blow over.