Dave,
If you pick up Jonah Goldberg's book on liberal fascism or much better FA Hayek's Road to Serfdom you will no doubt be struck by the Obama administration's political moves similarity to early stage fascism.
I need to say that Jonah Goldberg will be the much easier read but that FA Hayek is better in that he won a Nobel Prize with that book.
However Obama's behavior may well be based on his experience as a Neighborhood organizer. In anycase his behaviour is adversarial.
Ron