I had a not particularly baked thought about this a couple days ago- I think it gets back to the differences between MAGA and the Nazis and their vision of the ideal society. AIUI, the Nazis saw Jews et al. as untermenschen: a lower order of human, but still human (if only technically). MAGA…
draws more on the Confederate slaveholder tradition: the societal Other is quite literally not human, because they’re property. It’s like expecting a hair dryer to have a vibrant inner life, an inherent contradiction. Both groups only see the in-group as fully human, but they differ in the role…
they assign to everyone who isn’t them. This is also why they apply it to women, because they can’t see women as anything other than an appendage of a man. IDK. I know this isn’t particularly coherent but I hope folks know what I’m getting at.
No it’s coherent and I think you’re so right.