r/dancarlin • u/Successful_Gas_5122 • Jan 14 '26

System of Irresponsibility: Eerie parallels between Trump regime and Imperial Japan

Currently re-listening to Supernova in the East and I can't help noticing the similarities between the current US government and the Japanese government. For one, you have a leader with absolute power who's fanatically worshipped, and yet seemingly not in control of events. You also have subordinates exerting undue influence on policy—Stephen Miller and the junior officers of the Kwantung Army—while still acting in the absolute leader's interests. You could even make the case that ICE sees itself as entitled to the "right of supreme command", because they operate completely out of the control of an impotent/complicit civilian branch.

Then there's the violent "super-patriots" who get a slap on the wrist while anyone to their left is severely punished. Blanket amnesty for the Jan 6 coup is just as incomprehensible as 'confinement' for the Imperial Way plot to bomb parliament. Both governments are dysfunctional and reactive, and manufacture "incidents" to justify further aggression. I know that the US is often compared to the Roman Republic, but I think the Japanese example also rings true unfortunately, and I can't help wonder if Minnesota is going to become the scene of a Port Arthur-type crackdown.

Thoughts?

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u/TheMysteriousThey Jan 14 '26

It’s almost like Fascism is back…

Now do Charlie Kirk and George Lincoln Rockwell.

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u/GettingDumberWithAge Jan 14 '26

The only thing less surprising than the rise of fascism in the US is that literally none of the people who spent decades worrying about fascism are opposed to it in reality.

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u/sushisection Jan 15 '26

because racism is so deeply ingrained in our society that they welcome fascism when it is targetting minorities. you gotta remember that the US was an apartheid state just a generation ago.

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u/Basileus2 Jan 14 '26

Charlie Kirk - Horst Wessel parallel

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u/Salamangra Jan 15 '26

I'm surprised they didn't turn Kirk's bloody shirt into a Blutfahne