Maybe you missed the stories from David Frum, former GW Bush GOP speechwriter and neocon, in the Atlantic? These are major major articles, critical to American public debate.
From Feb 2016: "How to Build an Autocracy The preconditions are present in the U.S. today. Here’s the playbook Donald Trump could use to set the country down a path toward illiberalism." https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/how-to-...
Atlantic, Oct 2017: "The Autocratic Element Can America recover from the Trump administration?" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/the-aut...
Also Newsweek, Sept 2017 "TRUMP IS LIKE AN AUTOCRAT FROM GERMANY IN 1933, FORMER BRITISH AMBASSADOR SAYS" http://www.newsweek.com/trump-autocrat-germany-1933-former-b...