This is not just Trump - this is a tale as old as time. Trump and his brain dead dipshits are just too stupid to do it subtly.
And, at the end of the day, that's really why things *feel* like they're suddenly falling apart - the mask is off, the greedy are emboldened, they think themselves above the fray and already untouchable, so why not act like it.
That is what fascism is - the moment when the supremacists take off the mask and become openly supremacist.