What Are We Debating Here?

The Republican party has decided that intimidation is a big part of what they're doing, even at the local level. That in conjunction with the fueling and the monetization of these cultural wars by people like Elon Musk, where they are incentivized to keep this intimidation tactic over actual discourse,. When you put those two things together, that is how you get fascism. Unfortunately, there's no other word for this. I know we're ticked on around this thing. But historically, this is how you getting to fascism.