There are many eerie, horrifying similarities.

what it is is the ‘lizard brain’ taking over. the higher functions either never rly developed, or they have deteriorated. drug use, dementia, other things can cause this.
but in many ppl, they never develop. the science of brain development has been something i’ve watched since my kids were small. i remember vividly, in about 1978, the chgo tribune did a deep dive into this topic. iirc, they ran several articles for a week, then the sunday edition had a huge double page spread.
the tl/dr version is- mothers who r stressed during pregnancy, for whatever reason, shaped their children’s brains, and bodies, to fight. mothers who were well fed, well cared for, loved, supported, shaped their baby’s brains toward the ‘higher functions’, art, music, language, etc.

sometimes that stress is just poverty. even if they have food, they still live w more adrenaline than average. but it cd b lots of things- they have a lot of kids to take care of already. they care for an ailing family member. they’re sick themselves. etc, etc, etc.
this continues after birth, but it is prenatal development that has the most impact.

bottom line- it became my yardstick for any ruler anywhere that women and children r the top priority. if every mother i america was well cared for, this wd b a different country in a generation.
cuz nobody wd fall for this authoritarian bullshit.

Sounds exactly like what Trump is doing. I see it clear as day. Why can so many not see it?

and they approve. How many Repubs think we supported the wrong side in WWII? How many high up in this administration?

Comparisons to Hitler and Nazism make no sense to them because they may know who Hitler was and that he murdered millions of Jews and started WWII, but that’s the extent of their knowledge. They may know that Great Uncle Harry or Grandfather Earl fought in the world, but most likely could describe only a simplistic purpose of defeating Germany. They cannot make connections to movements like fascism because their knowledge of actual history (versus Republican MAGA history) is quite weak.

Where did Trump pick up Hitler's game plan? I doubt he read Mein Kampf or any serious history of WWII.

I doubt that trump studied Hitler (or anything else!), but someone in his administration sure has! My bet is on Stephen Miller, who is, embarrassingly, a Jew.

She said that was the only book he read. I can believe it because he uses a lot of Hitler’s language, and he is incredibly ignorant about world history and global politics, the topics that many former presidents and world leaders read about.

Been saying this since 2016.

It must have been the Cliff's Notes version. "Mein Kampf" is virtually unreadable even for people who mastered reading comprehension.

...this would be it.

Hitler was elected. We're in the "It can happen here" phase.

We have Hitler, the Joker, and Clowns all rolled into one.