
Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
Identification of Enemies as a Unifying Cause
Controlled Mass Media (via suggestion that any media which doesn’t toe the party line is ‘fake news’)
Obsession with National Security
Religion and Government Intertwined
Disdain for Intellectuals and The Arts
Obsession with Crime and Punishment
Rampant Cronyism & Corruption
Fraudulent Elections (considering that in the 2016 election there were 3 cases of voter fraud that affected the candidates running for President and one related to a ballot initiative–note: that the 3 cases of Fraud all supported 45.)