I don't see 5 stages of anything

March 1998 and paywalled. You can't see the 5 stages because only the first page is viewable without authentication.

Paywall is the first step

Step Zero: An inability to admit that you and your ideological fellows are capable of doing such things.

I’m a bit disappointed that an article which isn’t even publicly accessible is rising this quickly. It’s a dead giveaway for people voting without clicking…

This seems to be the same 1998 document: http://w3.salemstate.edu/~cmauriello/pdfEuropean/Paxton_Five...

On page 11 they're listed as: (1) the initial creation of fascist movements; (2) their rooting asparties in a political system; (3) the acquisition of power; (4) the exercise of power; and, finally, in the longer term, (5) radicalization or entropy.