We have a new model in which we no longer have parties of government of right and left but rather a civic democratic party and an authoritarian populist party. There’s a good chance they’ll be contesting elections for a while, even as the authoritarian populist party is trying in various ways to end them or radically change how free they are.
There are other examples of Trump-like politicians; Putin in Russia and Orbán in Hungary come to mind. Trump is kind of unique in explicitly modeling his rhetoric after Hitler’s.
Everything has come full circle. Hitler was heavily inspired by US policy for many of his actions