In summary, here is a description of fascist America:
- It begins when a GOP president, with the ultimate assistance of the right-leaning Supreme Court, uses an emergency as a pretext to override the Constitution and assume dictatorial powers.
- Democratic leaders throughout the country are jailed, and the military, having been first purged of unreliable elements, occupies blue states.
- Strict censorship is imposed. Religious tests are created for voting and officeholding. All left-leaning teachers and professors are fired.
- Red states are permitted to govern themselves, subject to the above-described censorship and religious tests.
- Business is required to accept more regulation, but is not nationalized. Unions are outlawed, and strikes are forbidden.
- A list of reliable existing religions is compiled. All of them are tolerated and incorporated into the new tests. New and left-leaning religions are prohibited. After some debate within the regime, Jews are subjected to severe discrimination.
- Blue states experience Reverse Reconstruction. They are ruled by a combination of military officials, carpetbaggers from red states, and collaborators. Elections and politics as usual disappear.
In short, fascist America is less like the highly centralized examples of the 1930s than an updated version of the Confederacy. Those people who actually took the advice and saved their Confederate dollars are thus finally rewarded.
None of this is inevitable, or even likely, but all of it is possible. They are the stakes of the Biden presidency.