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Yeah, but they have the state apparatus by the balls, so that’s legal. Hitler also came to power legally.

The legal/illegal distinction is a shit normative indicator in the best of times, and a terribly dangerous one in the worst.

This is plain wrong. Nazi germany was super legalistic. It’s all about having awful people in power making awful laws. A good Nazi in Hitler’s Reich would be very rule abiding.

I guess it’s not supposed to be an actual comparison to the third reich and more a commentary on the failure of America, but it’s worth taking the lesson from history that whether something is legal or not is meaningless under authoritarianism.

Edit: also it’s an interesting exercise to place stuff like slavery, Latin American coups, CIA drug experiments, rocket scientist Nazi import, and the native american genocide on this axis of denialism.