[stripe_away]

I'm less sure that there is an endgame. Seems more likely to me that it is being run as a reality TV show where the idea is to maintain a high level of viewer engagement.

And no-one is thinking that the only reason reality tv shows don't end in disaster is because it is a tv show, i.e. an artificial and contained/constrained environment.

[mallowdram]

The implementation of fascism was both across the board (legislation, edict, mass-firings, academic overthrow, consolidation, regulation, financial, trade, etc) and highly coordinated in a radically sped-up timeframe that had been planned by hundreds of people carefully sequestered in secrecy that launched day-one. That's not reality TV in the slightest. It's revolution or counter-revolution. M Gessen in contrast states it took Putin 10 years to do what Trump did in 6 months.

Not only is there a carefully designed endgame, it's so well hidden in pretexts within pretexts, that journalists, opposition, even political theorists can't for certain declare it, except that it's overthrow.