> What do we have that's about to become another holocaust, for example? While large scale genocide seems unlikely to be in the near future, the history of th

> What do we have that's about to become another holocaust, for example? While large scale genocide seems unlikely to be in the near future, the history of the rise of Nazi Germany has many parallels with the current rise of authoritarian governments around the world as well as among the right wing of the US. If there were to be large scale genocide, the conditions that precede such an event are certainly taking place right now within the right wing of the US as well as in authoritarian movements around the world. Here's a take written by an expert on how much Trumpism, right in the middle of his last term, can be compared to Nazism (short answer: not the genocide part, but other than that, a lot): https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/07/16/its-not-wrong-to-compare-trumps-america-to-the-holocaust-heres-why/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/0... > Politically, the president has certainly taken actions which are in many ways parallel to those of the early Nazi movement. As Evans rightly notes, his propaganda machine would be immediately familiar to Joseph Goebbels’s Nazi office. The recent executive order making administrative law judges political appointees subject to executive power cannot be seen as anything less than an attempt to bring the courts in line with the administration’s political ideology. The Nazis called this “Gleichschaltung,” or coordination, as they sought to co-opt government and private organizations. Even his management style has similarities to Hitler. Like Trump, Hitler was reluctant to surrender too much authority to one subordinate, and so his Cabinet (which he never called) was a den of backbiting and maneuvering underlings seeking the support of Hitler, who was the only one who decided policy. ... > Let’s again be clear: Trump is not Hitler; Hitler was arguably a far more astute politician with deeply held convictions and the means to turn a fledgling democracy into a totalitarian state, something that should be much more difficult here. Nonetheless, these historical comparisons are not hyperbolic and should at least give us pause. however, since this article was written, Trump has paved the way for *much* more astute authoritarians like Ron DeSantis etc. to take his place. A takeover of the US by authoritarian fascists and the end of whatever "democracy" the US has, replaced by sham elections that mean nothing while the government is turned into basically an enemy of the people with the exception of a very privileged few, would be a very serious, world changing event, and they are going for it big time right now.