The late, great?

To scholars of fascism — who have been ringing the alarm bells since Trump began his

climb to power in 2015 — the rally in Greenville felt like an escalation. Like the U.S.

just made another leap toward outright fascism.

“I am not easily shocked. But we are facing an emergency,” tweeted Jason Stanley,

a Yale University philosophy professor and author of the book “How Fascism Works.”

“Journalists must not get away with sugar coating this,” Stanley wrote. “This is the

face of evil.”

Read it and weep.