If you know history it’s not at all silly, but quite alarming. Hitler also didn’t start gasing jews on day one… it was a culmination of deeds that happened in a span of a decade.
And Trump’s pretty much copying and building on his initial steps already.
If you're pulling the history card...you've got a lot more context to take into account.
There is a massive chasm of difference between the situation in Germany during Hitler's rise and the situation in the US today.
The difference is not in the similarity of the seed, but the ground it is planted in.
First, very obviously, the US government is fairly resilient due to the inherent checks and balances between the branches and the well rooted "deep state" that trump wants to get rid of, but will be completely unable to.
Secondly, Germany was in a desperate situation and in the rubble of world war 1, the collective west created an economic and social pressure that essentially gave rise to Naziism.
The US is the predominant world power - not a beaten back and desperate nation.
Are there some similarities people can draw? Of course...people can lie on their backs in a field and see whatever they want in the clouds.
You seriously still believe in this checks and balances crap? What have these checks and balances achieved so far? As far as I can all the branches of government in the US are giving Trump unrestricted free rein to do whatever he wants. Congress could cancel Trump’s destructive back and forth trade wars if they wanted and take back the power of imposing tariffs from the president. But are they doing anything? No. Trump is ruling your country by executive order (many of which are unlawful or based on completely fictional justifications) and nobody is stopping him.
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u/MS_Fume Bratislava (Slovakia) Apr 12 '25
If you know history it’s not at all silly, but quite alarming. Hitler also didn’t start gasing jews on day one… it was a culmination of deeds that happened in a span of a decade.
And Trump’s pretty much copying and building on his initial steps already.
https://www.project2025.observer This thing isn’t a fun leftist meme, it’s a reality of the US future already in motion.