'As I’ve said before, America is not the Weimar Republic on the eve of 1933, and Trump is not Hitler. But it is important to understand the parallels.
That Donald Trump still has not been held accountable for encouraging the attack on the U.S. Capitol, or for provoking his followers with his blatant lie that the 2020 election was stolen, continues to galvanize an army of potentially violent Americans.'
Trump’s Brownshirts - Robert Reich https://robertreich.substack.com/p/americas-brownshirts?publication_id=365422&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=diqr
@wellingtonrock My Veblen claxon is sounding. "There is no need of pointing out how prone the men of today are to revert to the spiritual attitude of mastery and of personal subservience... the case of the American colonies might be cited as an example of such a reversion on an unusually large scale."
