These are not necessarily in order.
As before I will bold the expected next step.
- Cultivate cult of personality ("I'm the only one who tells you the truth")
- Discredit media ("They're all liars, every single one")
- Discredit the entire system ("It's completely broken and corrupt, top to bottom")
- Offer self as the sole person able to fix it ("and I'm the only one who can fix it")
- Create your own media (Use current media until they wake up, Twitter, rallies, internet)
- Use conspiracy theory and appeal to emotions, allowing for discounting of all exterior facts
- Blame the victims, begin smearing of enemies, especially traitors perceived disloyal
- Use dog whistle: violence ("Throw him out. And do me a favor, punch him in the face.")
- Hyper misogyny, misguided populism, racism
- Declare foreign threats, play on fears ("ISIS")
- Stoke nationalism (border security, military) ("We need a strong military, a strong police force.")
- Denouncing of traitors, foreigners, outsiders, deviants
- Suppression of vices (anti-liquor, anti-drug, anti-porn, etc)
- Unification under one ideal (One army, one flag, one God)
- [Emergency event / attack] used to seize power
The most insidious thing about fascism is that by the time it's finally obvious to absolutely everyone, it's too late to do anything about it.
ここには何もないようです