Couple of thoughts:<p>The greatest relative strength of USA was right after the WWII when US GDP and industrial capacity was more than the rest of the world combined, had unmatched military capability and nuclear supremacy. Since then in geopolitical terms US is in decline.<p>The peak of US economy looking from the point of the middle class was 1969 - after that there were oil shocks, stagflation, outsourcing and hollowing out of the middle class. with a short blip upwards in the late 90s when US was reaping the benefits of winning the cold war and the computing boom.<p>And right now US is in a almost decade long depression if you exclude the SV,Wall street, and some landlords.<p>So there is both relative and real decline for big parts of the US public.<p>I don&#x27;t think Trump is a fascist. Or even a particularly authoritarian hard liner.<p>And he has so far respected the letter of the US constitution. All of his vitriol has been towards people that are not US citizens. And the Supreme Court has made it clear that if you are not a US Citizen being in US is privilege, not a right.