Nazification (also in USA ?)

We often forget to mention how the free press and opposition were the first who got dismantled in the Third Reich. What followed were unions, people with disabilities, queer people and then other minorities at last. Many of them hoped that despite everything that's happening around them and threats from Hitler to go further, they would be spared. Surely he wouldn't go that far... and when he did there was nobody left to help them. Anyone who could've had any say in anything to stop the next step got liquidated before the Nazis could make their next move deeper into fascism and total control of the population.

There are many parallels . The most alarming in my eyes is what is reminding me of what happened before and after the passage of the Enabling Act of 1933. What it effectually did was to concentrate power into the hands of the executive, circumventing the legislature to enact laws even if they are explicitly unconstitutional. The far right’s Unitary Executive Theory has basically the same stated goal. And the judiciary has already basically embodied this theory with the SC decision around presidential immunity. I fear it is only a matter of time, until the Executive Orders override laws and can’t be challenged until it’s too late. Which is why an actually resisting opposition and organizing on the ground is so important.

To your point: Before the vote the Nazis intimidated anyone opposing the law and arrested basically the whole of the Communist Party and some of the Social Democartic Party (SPD) while striking deals with the center and religious right, who wanted some assurances for their own if they vote for it. This is the Gleichschaltung you’re talking about. And the Trump administration has been known for nothing but intimidation (the complete media landscape has heeled except for a few small actually independent outlets) and so-called deals, so absolutely.

Also the ‘flooding of the zone’ as Steve Bannon announced it, as well as the use of catastrophies (fires, plane crashes) to assign further blame to the opponents and legitimize the own actions are straight out of Autocracy 101.

Hi @not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone

i saw your post in the politics community and knew it will be deleted because it does not follow the rules especially :
Their # 1 rule : Post only links to articles (...)

... this is why i rebuilt your post in here and gave you credit in the header

Although deleted at Lemmy(dot)world, the original post was not deleted on other instances like in here :
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/21462803

Hi @AliSaket@mander.xyz