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Are Republicans More Like The Gestapo Or The SS (Original Post) DanieRains Feb 2020 OP
they are the Roman Soldiers... ( Im atheist and that comparison stands out even for me) samnsara Feb 2020 #1
A Nazi is a Nazi. Why split hairs? dem4decades Feb 2020 #2
neither, they are more like the Sturmabteilung, aka the Brownshirts Celerity Feb 2020 #3
They are more soviet than anything Buckeyeblue Feb 2020 #4
Scheisskopfs is the proper term for them C_U_L8R Feb 2020 #5
Christofascists Thomas Hurt Feb 2020 #6
Can't they be both? superpatriotman Feb 2020 #7
More like the SA atreides1 Feb 2020 #8
Definitely the SS. They have the requisite cruelty and COLGATE4 Feb 2020 #9
The Taliban. Jamastiene Feb 2020 #10
More like the denizens of Jonestown in Guyana DFW Feb 2020 #11

Celerity

(42,642 posts)
3. neither, they are more like the Sturmabteilung, aka the Brownshirts
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 08:50 AM
Feb 2020

the SS were eventually indoctrinated into a strange form of faux Teutonic paganism, so fundie Xians would be verboten and the Gestapo were secret police who shunned the limelight.

atreides1

(16,046 posts)
8. More like the SA
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 09:12 AM
Feb 2020

You know...the Brownshirts, only in this case led by Moscow Mitch!

Rohm, thought that his friendship with Hitler would save him, in the same way that Mitch believes that his alliance with Trump will keep him rolling in the money and in power...but just like Rohm, Mitch will have a "come to Jesus" moment...and he along with his "SA" Republicans will come to the same end.

There will be a "Night of the Long Knives" for Mitch, Lindsey, and Nunes...and it will be Barr giving each of them the pistol with a single bullet!!!

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)
9. Definitely the SS. They have the requisite cruelty and
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 09:15 AM
Feb 2020

absolute determination to do whatever is necessary to obtain and exercise extreme power. In addition, they are absolutely convinced that they are the ubermenschen adrift in a sea of human flotsam that must be dealt with "severely" and who exist at all only so long as they can serve their masters.

Jamastiene

(38,187 posts)
10. The Taliban.
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 09:18 AM
Feb 2020

For a long time, people were calling them the Talibornagains, because of their extremist take on Christianity. It did seem to fit them very well.

In any case, Republicans remind me of any and all authoritarian dictatorships. They have at least some tactics in common with all of them, because they are using tactics from so many different authoritarian dictatorships. All of the above is probably the best answer.

DFW

(54,050 posts)
11. More like the denizens of Jonestown in Guyana
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 09:33 AM
Feb 2020

Gestapo is one of those abbreviations the Germans are so intent on using: GEheime STAatsPOlizei. "Secret State Police."

The Republicans are hardly secretive about what they are up to. On the contrary, they are so in-your-face, it's incredible anyone could ever be unclear about their goals.

The loyal fanatics of the SS (Schutzstaffel) were willing, brutal true believers. The name, sort of a "protective brigade," was originally due to the core being a protective guard for NSDAP party gatherings. The expanse into a feared military machine came later on. It would appear the Republicans are headed on this direction, especially with the gun-fetish of some of them taking on fanatic overtones, but they're not there yet.

If anything, I see parallels to the cult of Jim Jones, the "reverend" who led his followers to mass suicide.

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