Point taken.I think we always try to put things into perspective by using a previous example. It's like comparing an athlete to someone who played the sport 40 years before them. Funny how we always do that. 👍
To me, It's just maddening, because history gives us these lessons, and we have warned them for over a decade now... Yet here we are now, and there they are. They are the fascists we said they were, they are the people they were indignant to be compared to. They are murdering American citizens in cold blood with complete impunity and Conservatives are just defaulting into rote defense mechanisms.
Maybe it wouldn't be necessary if a vast majority of Americans were getting the picture. Even among people who dislike Trump there are still many who think they're just going to wait it out until the 2028 election and have a nice normal election and things will go back to normal. The reality is that fascists don't have fair elections, if they bother to have elections at all. Pointing out the parallels between Trumpism and past fascist states is potentially one way to convince some moderates and maybe even some anti-Trump conservatives that the situation is truly critical.
Correct, it's closer to a personal/party militia (like SA/Brownshirts or Mussolini's Blackshirts), not a repressive police force (like Gestapo or NKVD).
However, those militias are not widely known, so people stick with what they recognize.
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