Today is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the infamous camp where Nazis murdered over a million people, mostly Jews, in cold blood.

The Nazis didn't start with death camps. They started with boycotts of Jewish businesses. They infiltrated and took ownership of the media. They looked the other way while crimes were committed against Jews. They censored anything that painted them negatively. They invoked religion and mysticism to give themselves authority.

Today's Nazis look a little different. They are not hyperfocused on one enemy. The rhetoric and hate is less focused. Liberals. Muslims. Blacks. Latinos. Anybody, really, who isn't white, Christian, and Republican. It's a more stochastic version of Nazi propaganda.

In Germany, one night symbolized the shift into full blown atrocity. Kristallnacht. A night of organized violence across the country. In the US today, the violence is "randomized" and slower to develop. Instead of organized mobs, it is radicalized white men, acting "on their own." "Domestic terrorists."

But they are not acting on their own, and they are not really random. They are inevitable. They are the inevitable result of FOX News and its spinoffs. The Republicans are intentionally creating a crisis, because crises are the vehicles for coup. And once Krystalnacht happens, there's no turning back.

The US already established concentration camps for brown people. But their initial coup attempt failed, and so the escalation was stopped. The ongoing coup attempt continues today.

Make no mistake. It's not just that it "could" happen here. It *WILL* happen here if this Republican Party succeeds in establishing one party rule. They might not have death camps like Auschwitz. But please don't think for a moment that they wouldn't find ways to kill millions of people.

They're so very very close. Anywhere Republicans have power, there are agents in the service of Nazis. They have to wait until there's no chance of losing the next election. They have the Supreme Court. They have over half the states. If they win enough states to call a Constitutional Convention... it's over. If they win another trifecta at the Federal Level, it's all but over.

Auschwitz is closed, but the Nazis were never fully defeated. Germany was defeated. The Nazis persevered. And they've almost won. Again.

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