“In a way, the world−view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality..."
― George Orwell, 1984

"Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by
obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim
hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a
mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy
but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic
liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or
legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion." - Robert Paxton, Anatomy of Fascism, basically describing MAGA in 2004