this is a majorly fucked up timeline when people are complaining that it's too mean to call a US concentration camp "Auschwitz" when it's clearly just harmless little "Dachau." Dachau led to Auschwitz and if the normalization of it is any indication, it WILL happen again here. THAT'S why people are calling it that - we've seen this shit before and know how it ends.
These associations of criminals, which had been a feature of German society since the late 19th century, continued to operate, albeit underground, even after being banned by the Nazis.
The Nazis viewed crime through a racial and biological lens, targeting individuals deemed "asocial" or "hereditarily predisposed to criminality". This ideology led to the detention of many individuals in concentration camps without due process.
The Nazi regime actively constructed a narrative of Jewish criminality, using it as a tool for persecution, dispossession, and ultimately, genocide.
The Nazi regime itself became a perpetrator of organized crime on a grand scale, engaging in systematic theft, violence, and mass murder against targeted populations, including Jews, Roma, and political opponents.
Change the names of the persecutors and some of the persecuted and you have America today.
Invoking a cult leader as a martyr can only get you so far. I'm unconvinced there's anyone else likely to successfully take on the mantle of cult leader after him. I guess we'll see eventually.
Nobody else has the ability to be the cult leader that he is. But maybe they'll be entrenched enough that they don't need the cultists' support any more.
We already had him in office for four years and it was a disaster. So what do these stupid fuckers do? VOTE FOR HIM AGAIN. I get the cultists who worship him doing that, they're thoroughly brainwashed, but there is NO excuse for anyone else to be surprised by this shit.
This reminds me of an event my mom likes to recount: We moved to Germany when I was a kid. We went to a beach where other kids were running around naked. I looked around and immediately took my clothes off and ran across the beach.