"What we do find in history is prosecution, in the longer term, is one of the only things that deflates these guys' personality cults, because those cults are founded on the idea that they are invincible, they are infallible," [fascism expert Ruth] Ben-Ghiat said. "Now, if that does happen to Trump—DeSantis has already absorbed all the lessons of Trump."
Looks like "fascism expertise" is a new useless humanities major at the state university.
Yeah, let's just look at personality only.
If anything Joe "Buyed in" is more of a cult figure than anyone. He stands in as proxy to his handler and is merely a symbol for the left to bow down to.