> Nice people made the best Nazis. Or so I've been told. My mother was born in Munich in 1934, and spent her childhood in Nazi Germany surrounded by nice people who refused to make waves. When things got ugly, the people my mother lived alongside chose not to focus on "politics", instead busying themselves with happier things. They were lovely, kind people who turned their heads as their neighbours were dragged away... You know who weren't nice people? Resisters.

(Naomi Shulman, 2016 https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2016/11/17/the-post-election-case-for-speaking-out-naomi-shulman )

No fake gesture.
No Ironic Joke.
The openly white supremacist does a Sieg Heil at CPAC and the crowd goes wild.

You don't need to ever ask what you would do during the rise of fascism in Germany 1930's ever again. You are living your answer.

All my life I have been listening to the excuse, that the US had to be flooded with weapons, because if a dictator ever came to power, these weapons were the guarantee that the people could defend the US against the dictator.

They did not.

They voted for him.