We beat Donald Trump, but we haven’t beaten fascism.

Trump will leave behind a crumbling national infrastructure, a White House bathtub ringed with bronzer, and a clear pathway for a more strategic successor.

Once all the votes are counted, two things will be true: One, the United States will have its greatest electoral turnout since 1900, potentially as high as ⅔ of eligible voters. And two, nearly half of those voters will have cast ballots for Donald J. Trump.

Pause for a moment and ask yourself: How does that happen? How does a man get this close to reelection after demonstrating catastrophic incompetence as President, abusing the office to enrich himself, flagrantly violating federal law, and apathetically allowing a preventable pandemic to spread unchecked and kill a quarter-million Americans?

There is only one plausible explanation: Those voters either believed he was doing a good job, or they believed the Democrats and Joe Biden would be worse. And that should frighten anyone concerned about the rise of fascism in the United States.

It’s become trite to say “Donald Trump is a fascist.” The sentence invokes the greatest crimes against human rights in the last century, but somehow meets yawns from a majority of Americans…