Interesting read!-----Creeping Fascism

If you are going to say that the Trump administration is unique in consolidating power in the Oval Office, you better check what former presidents, Democrat as well as Republican, have been doing. - Michael Smith

...the executive branch, especially the presidency itself, has been accumulating power for a very long time, starting with JFK and running an unbroken line through 

• Kennedy, 
• Johnson, 
• Carter, 
• Clinton, 
• Obama and
•  Biden as well as GOP presidents like Nixon, 
• Ford, 
• Reagan, 
• HW Bush, 
• Dub Bush, and now 
• Trump. 

That covers every year since 1961 – that’s 65 years running.
But to claim it is all Trump, you just have to ignore the consolidations of power done since JFK to claim that Trump is the real fascist, and all of these presidents were secretly in league with him even before he ever declared his candidacy in 2015...

• It is the socialist tendencies in government, every action of government that claims to “help” one must, by necessity, take from another and that is the very definition of redistribution of wealth. 
• With each transaction, the next becomes easier. 

Some presidents consolidate power to do more redistribution, some to slow or stop it. 

Trump is of the latter...