What will be Trump's Reichstag's fire?

The Electoral College, not the American people, elected a moral monster President Elect. Trump was trounced by Clinton by near two million votes and two percentage points; numbers sufficient to elect her in any other democracy on Earth.

Trump doesn't answer to the moniker 'fascist' so we can't call him that. Yet, he ignited his campaign of fear and loathing with the racist meme Obama was the 'other' from the black country of Kenya. He campaigned using many fascist tactics; stoking xenophobic fears of Mexican rapists, deporting the undocumented whose slave wages pump up affluent wealth, demanding a ban on Muslims; indeed even creating a Muslim registry. His vulgarity is breathtaking; egging on his supporters to beat protesters with promises to pay their legal bills; unconscionably referring to a hated reporter's menstrual cycle. He claimed the election was 'rigged' against him, refusing to abide by the most sacred American tenant of honoring the result should he lose; indeed promising to jail his opponent if victorious. On foreign affairs he's promised to bomb the shit out of imagined bad guys. At his first rally as President Elect, Trump tore into his bete noir, the media, as the "extremely dishonest press", lambasting an unnamed female anchor he claimed teared up over his victory.

Trump will fail; but he won't fail with a whimper. We should have no illusions he won't resort to an incident, be it massive civil disobedience or a terrorist attack, to abrogate the dwindling civil and political liberties left after the Bush Administration began America's descent from freedom with the Patriot Act after 911. Tyrants and wannabe tyrants have been doing that throughout history, the most famous example being Hitler's use of the Reichstag fire of February 27, 1933, to spiral Germany into tyranny just 28 days after being appointed Chancellor.

Trump supporters poo-poo these warnings, claiming Trump just used hyperbole and clever marketing to prevail in the Electoral College. But they along with us who comprehend his mendacity, ignore at our peril the ravings of a clearly disturbed, undemocratic, conscienceless charlatan who exploited our human and electoral weakness to gain the Presidency. It may not be engulfed in a conflagration yet, but Trump's America is smoldering; and the heat is becoming insufferable.