When states descend into the abyss of anocracy on the road to fascism they rarely stop halfway. Barbara Walter's How Civil Wars Start shows that the quantity of near misses is very small.

When humanity enters the slippery slope into one of its stupid seasons of authoritarian xenophobia and majoritarian nationalism to narrow the charmed circle of those eligible for full membership in the Volk, the momentum rarely stops halfway. We're not even near halfway through this stupid season cycle. Buckle up.