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The 2nd amendment was written in 1789 when information moved at the rate of the printing press and bullets came from muskets.
This takeover has been in planning since the 1970s. They courted the NRA and gun owners along with the attack on public schooling so said gun owners wouldn't understand what fascism is when the moment came.
In the grand scheme of things, it took the fascists 200 years to find a way around the 2nd amendment.
The founding fathers used every trick in the fascist playbook before there was even such a thing. We have always been a country created by the wealthy for the wealthy. You can't examine our history critically and come away not seeing blatant authoritarian and proto-fascist ideology and actions.
So no, the fascists have always been here and in charge filling our heads with the propaganda to make us believe we are a free law abiding democracy.
Everything else you said was spot on. Just because we have always been fascist doesn't mean we can't get objectively worse