I have long held the opinion that invoking Hitler in a political discussion is fatuous and lazy.

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8. it took many years. jews and others have warned for decades that "it can happen here" and we must be vigilant

but they managed to turn "hitler" into a caricature, and extraordinary extreme, a comically unrealistic figure.

instead of heeding the warnings about fascism, bigotry, and dictatorship, instead they reduced hitler's crimes down to exterminating jews and starting a world war.

the problem with that is by the time any of that happens, it's far, far too late to stop it, except by other nations destroying it all.

the warnings that were relevant was about hitler *before* the enabling act in 1933. by the time he had dictatorial powers, it was too late to stop what followed.


the parallels between donnie and hitler are extraordinary. the lies, the hate, the threats, the replacing of personal whim over established law, the media control, the corruption, and the brazen obviousness of it all yet still no one can do anything about it, all very much the same.

so where exactly does this lead? donnie hasn't yet exterminated millions or started a world war, but who or what would stop him?

donnie and the republican party have no guardrails, no moral compass, there is nothing within them to hold back and say "woah, that's a bit extreme don't you think?" nothing. only checks and balances can stop them. public opinion, condemnation from the media. but they are well down the path of eliminating all opposing voices. congress will never impeach him, even if the house did, the senate would never remove him. many republicans in congress think this one crappy bill is a political disaster, yet they can't help themselves, they still have to vote for it. and the supreme court has repeatedly pwned itself to help donnie.

and then there's the media, which told us not to vote for dukakis because he once released one prisoner who later committed a crime, not to vote for gore because he boasted once, not to vote for hillary because some emails that sorta had classified info passed through a server she set up that users were told not to put classified info on, now heap praise on donnie, who is demonstrably 1000 times worse than any of that.

they barely even mention that he's a convicted criminal. endless wall-to-wall coverage about a baseless and corrupt search for evidence of a crime against hillary, with pronouncements that an indictment would destroy her career, then when donnie is convicted on 34 counts, they shrug and say gee, no one seems to care.

so fine, donnie is not hitler 1944. yet.

but he sure as sh*t looks a hell of a lot like hitler 1933, and he's almost nearly got an american version of the enabling act. in practice, who's gonna stop him?

it should surprise no one if elections rigged, blatantly or subtlely going forward, in any case in a way that keeps donnie and/or his chosen successor in power for decades, and the things they do will only get worse and worse.

so a world war and or genocide within 10 years? that should come as no surprise.

but the bottom line, is that we're nearing the very last chances to stop it all and restore democracy, if we haven't crossed that line already.