We are so on the road to fascism:
The population gets dumber, less connected with the world due to declining educational standards.
The leadership promotes fear among the population, a sense of pending doom if we don't surrender our freedoms for security.
The news media becomes concentrated in the hands of a few powerful groups who mimic this message realizing that people in fear are easier to manipulate.
The political parties demonize each other to the point of dehumanization. What were once mere differences in political philosophies become differences in religion, education, thought, economic class, and geography.
Economic policies of both political parties promote economic disparity, the stabilizing influence of a large middle class is lost as its numbers decrease, further creating a disparity between rich and poor.
To counter the cultural and economic threats of globalization and domestic economic policies which favor the rich, fundamentalism rises in popularity among the disenfranchised.
To keep power, the political forces begin to strip the public of its rights in the name of various sorts of security measures.
What happens after that?
Usually a civil war or the introduction of a nationalist fascism.
Remember that very few people, particularly leaders, see revolutions coming. The pop-up before anyone knows it, frequently managing to catch the despot or president or king in his own castle.