Hartmann on oligarchy and fascism

From his Report today: 

He sees oligarchy as the transition from democracy to fascism. And we in the US are well embedded in that transition on the way to fascism. He lists several of the hallmarks at the link.

"Countries typically begin the transition from democracy into oligarchy and sometimes even outright fascism when the oligarchs seize control of a large part of the political process, typically a major political party. This has happened in the United States over the past 40 years under the rubric of the Reagan Revolution. The Republican Party is now entirely controlled by the oligarch class, who also have functional control over as many as half of the individual members of the Democratic Party."

He offers some initiatives to combat this slide, like the For the People Act. But such remedies are "fiercely opposed by the GOP and the oligarchs who own that Party [which] will determine whether America again embraces democracy, or picks back up on Donald Trump's nearly-successful move to push America into a full-blown fascistic form of oligarchy. The stakes are higher than they’ve been since the 1860s and the 1930s; this may be our last chance to rescue democracy in this country."