If the comparison to Nazi Germany would not be far stretched currently, then all these people would have left the country by now. A pardon by Biden would not provide any protection.

Of course fascism is a process and i dont want to exclude that it can develop towards that. This can also happen faster than anticipated at first.

But if the Democrats would have seriously believed in things to get this way, they would have acted very differently before and especially now after the election. Or they only cared about a fascist threat to the extent that they hoped to mobilize voters by it, but they aren’t really opposed to it. For me this makes the most sense as capitalist oligarchs historically always were open to fascism.