0) Outsource an act of Planetary Biological Terrorism toa Communist country that places zero value on human life, that will kill millions of people worldwide. Use the resulting fear as a pretext for the following...
While this is true for our present dilemma, I'm trying to point out the similarities between Democrat initiatives and Nazi initiatives in the 1930's, and they didn't do step 0.
They did demonize Jews, so, if you alter step 0, it could fit. Maybe something like this:
Step 0) Create a sense of personal fear and/or loathing of a group of people, and attach urgency, so as to justify the next steps.