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Each event builds on the previous, it's the whole transformation of quantity into quality. It's not going to be any one thing in isolation that ushers in full blown fascism, it's a culmination of different events pushing politics in a particular direction.
Years ago I saw some parallels in history from when the Protestant Catholics wars were fought in Europe. And how only so much social change could be tolerated before reactionary forces snapped back like a rubber band stretched too long.
It gives a partial answer about why systems are run by fascist morons, and the normal checks to their power is eroded.
If history is anything to go by, and normally it rhymes, things will take decades to go from bad to worse.
Usually it takes decades to reach the inflection point, but once things get going they develop very quickly. See rise of fascism in Europe at the start of the 20th century as an example.