"President Trump has put the United States, in some ways, where Germany was in 1933, when Adolf Hitler used the suspicious burning of the German parliament to turn a democracy into a totalitarian state...
“The Reichstag has been on a slow burn since June,” [Timothy Snyder] told me. “The language Trump uses to talk about Black Lives Matter and the protests is very similar to the language Hitler used"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/25/this-is-not-drill-reichstag-is-burning/
