Men claiming to be from DOGE show up at San Francisco City Hall, demand records

Not only did the slave states try to force other states to tolerate slavery within their own borders, but the biggest changes in the Confederacy's constitution was how it permanently removed rights from its member-states.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely and we are just getting started. The checks and balance that get in the way are actively being dismantled.

Ok.

I ask because a person not used to expending energy doing those things could quickly and easily get "tired" and believe the present situation to be "hysterics, " while those who are politcally aware - as opposed to those newly being told all of their xenophobic urges are wonderful - are rightfully alarmed.

I recommend you read _Defying_Hitler_ to see how authoritarianism creeps in. You might also get to know the recent history of Hungary, Turkey, Belarus, Myanmar, Venezuela, Poland, Macedonia, and Thailand.

The power shift in the Republican party has strong parallels to shifts in power that lead to compromises with the NSDAP, and eventually to Hitler's chancellorship.

The moves away from old institution norms (by both parties, though I tend to bias against R) who claim they are fighting to preserve it, whether with good intentions or not, have the effect of eroding our democracy.

The Trump admin's denigration of immigrants, and gender ideology also have obvious parallels.

For a time I didn't consider there to be genocidal parallels, but the recent threats to empty Gaza puts that on shaky ground.

Until these trends start reversing, and the groups involved work to restore norms, we are at an increasing risk of repeating past government's failures. For one party that feels like the intent (see recent chaos monkey efforts), while at least the other recognizes they are eroding norms, but can't seem to reverse course (Biden's executive orders).

We're not being hysterical, we're being realistic. Trump is mostly a buffoon but Miller, Musk, and Vance are all truly evil people (I don't say this lightly) whose vision for America is truly terrifying. Like, Handmaid's Tale wasn't speculative fiction, but a working manual for these guys.

it's about seeing exactly the same kind of patterns and dynamics as during the rise of the 3rd riche

i.e. by every objective measurable metric the US is currently falling to autocracy and fascism

Will that be "literal Nazis" taking over the US, no most likely not. But might it become bad for most US citizens and the World in general to a really really bad point, then yes every thing is pointing in that direction.

If you then add in how much tension both the world economy and geopolitics is in (since years getting worse) it would be strange to assume we aren't at sever risk of WW3 in some form (could be a cold war or similar, too).

Look at how the US is currently trying to get right of a absurd high amount of people (nearly twice as many as Jews where killed by Nazi Germany) most of which do not have a home to go back to and probably most of which other countries don't want to take in (in context of forced deportations, due to such people e.g. being jobless as they had to leave their job behind). And then look at how they started building/expanding Guantanamo and how the current head of state is constantly using dehumanizing language and look on how some of the people he puts in power have outed themself as being very inhuman and cruel in their world view. And then think how is this _not_ going to end in a catastrophe. Not necessary on the level of industrialized mass killing. But really there is no way this is going to end well.

By now the question isn't if people die, but how many digits.

if you list of the Nazies came into power, converted the Weimar Republic into a autocracy and you don't get hung up on things which are specific of their time but instead take the concepts behind them (e.g. "fear mongering and hate against a minority and persecuting them the moment they get in power" instead of "persecution of Jews") then what we are currently seeing is _exactly_ the same

Naturally if you only look at Nazi Germany in it's final form and treat Hitler as a singularity of evil instead of a product of his time it's really easy to not get that.

And yes, sure, there being a absurd amount of similarities doesn't mean that the US will next start mass killing Jews.

Actually if you look at the similarities and for a moment for argumentative reasons assume it will get as bad as Hitler Germany then it still wouldn't be genocide of Jews ... but genocide of "illegal criminals" like Trump loves to say using the same kind of hate speech tools Hitler used for Jews, just using modern language and a different minority instead. Through again if we assume it gets as bad. The point here isn't (at all) that "Trump is Hitler" but that the US is on very dangerous slippery slope to autocracy and fascism which even could (but doesn't has to) end up with some form of genocide because in additional to the checks-and-balances of the US being kinda a joke by now the starting building blocks for genocide are all there too (building of a concentration camp outside of their soil, having a ton of people they want gone from the US but which often have no place to go, using intentional dehumanizing languages systematically and increasingly, starting to dehumanizing and delegitimizing of other minorities too, constantly rilling up of people by the head of the state, systematic removing of checks and balances, increasingly unchecked executive, private forces which do "especially sensitive tasks" (through atm. no private militarized forces), asking people to be loyal to the ruling power instead of the constitution, systematic reinterpreting the constitution in definitely not intended to be that way ways, putting people in power for loyalty with a cause instead of competence, ton of open and less open megalomania, tons of tons of excuses being put out with the intend to reason for unreasonable, cruel actions not possible in a state of law, did I mention rule by emergency edict? (just called executive order), sizing of assets, etc. etc.)