Eugene Robinson, a guest on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” claimed Tuesday that former President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire a portion of the federal bureaucracy would be “textbook fascism.”

In a conversation with an MSNBC panel including Jen Psaki, Joe Scarborough and others, Robinson expressed his concerns with Trump expelling the “people who keep us safe” and the people who “know how to run things,” referring to recent reports that Trump plans, if reelected, to reform the executive branch to make more federal positions accountable to the president

“This will enable this move toward fascism. This is textbook fascism. It’s outrageous. It is incredibly dangerous, not just to our system of democracy & our democratic values, it’s just dangerous.” Robinson said. “He’s talking about essentially wanting to essentially fire the people in the federal bureaucracy who know how to run things, who make the country work, who keep our air clean and our water safe and keep us safe in the intelligence agencies and the defense department.”