As a German, I say this: Do not repeat Germany's De-Nazification mistakes.

[Wounded Bear]

41. History may not repeat, but it does rhyme...

The US has similar, if less powerful groups extant here. Until now, none have come so close to taking over out government.

Yes, we need a thorough house cleaning ourselves. We haven't quite got to point of lighting up gas chambers for our undesirables yet, the there were certainly hints that we have leaning that direction for quite some time. This just didn't start with Trump, far from it. It centers on what the Republican Party has become. They have moved that way in the interest of political power and the desire to set up a minority power one-party system.

There are legal limits on how much we can limit speech or what people wear, but we really need to apply more social pressures to shame and ostracize these folks who pursue violent overthrow of our government and society.

One of our problems is our false pride and our denial of the realities of our country. It leads to an inability to follow one of the most important maxims we need to learn: You have to learn from other people's mistakes, we don't have time to make them all ourselves.

Yeah, we can learn a lot from our European friends and neighbors.