If you want to take power as a fascist, and you don’t have a strong following in the military, you need a large group of violent thugs with snappy team t-shirts under your unquestioned control. Mussolini’s guys wore black; Hitler’s Germans predictably went for a duller brown look.
We have plenty of right-wing militias in America today, but they aren’t prevalent enough to be much of a threat, and they aren’t under a single command. Will that change in the next four years? Will someone–either a recognized right-wing leader or someone we haven’t heard of yet–try to put himself at the head of these groups, and use them to win power?
It could happen; Trump didn’t do it, but he has shown the way for harder men with his authoritarian rhetoric and open disdain for liberal democratic values. Keep your eyes on this issue during the next few years.