I wonder if the Germans felt like we do when Hitler was coming to power. A disbelief that normal people could be so evil, and then horror when it was somehow legitimized.
When I was growing up, I always thought it was like 80% of Germany that believed in the whole white-super-man, but maybe it was 20%, or maybe less.
I just can’t believe that half of America approves of what’s going on. I can’t believe that 20% is so mad that the immigrants that they want to put them in Auschwitz style cages.
I wonder if all Americans are going to be branded something like “Nazi” like the Germans were.
I think this comment captures it best. Nazi’s in the 1930s to 1950s were a very specific group of people and Hitler was essentially just their leader until he became somewhat of a fascist dictator. But let’s not forget, for instance, Mosley, who was a British politician advocating for fascism.
But the term ‘nazi’ has a very clear definition and I think maga would be a good counterpart.
Nazi, NSB’er, fascist, these are all just terms. Maga’s would now be the term for the supporter of undemocratic regime. Whether they are the same kind of fascists as nazi’s, well…
I think it’s more important not to compare the groups. It does not go beyond supporting a regime that actively oppresses by making promises based in populism. Can you really blame people for electing someone who yells they will make the world better for you, specifically? Whether they will make the world more horrible for others is irrelevant at that point.
So in short: depending on the outcome of all of this, I think the Americans that have supported this regime will be branded in their communities for life, but only if they’re open about it. I think in Nazi Germany there must’ve been some people who, in 1933, agreed with a lot of stuff Hitler said (and to be fair to them, Germans lived horrible lives due to penance for WWI and Hitler vowed to do something about it, oh and also the Jews are at fault for your misery) but by 1939 perhaps they felt uneasy about what was going on.
There are quite a bit of Americans who already feel Leopards Ate Their Face with what’s going on.