Building the mental habit to compare Trump's rise to power to Hitler's or Mussolini's serves no purpose beside creating an excuse to capitulate in advance to further consolidation by claiming it's inevitability.
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And comparing today's situation to WWII serves no purpose besides building the powerless hope of some Great War that would wipe all the evil away.
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What will happen instead is most certainly the messy and grinding process of organising opposition, and fighting with MAGA and it's successors over and endless series of strategic goals, for the years or decades to come.
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Thinking of the situation as set out from the beginning to follow such or such course of action, eg by presenting Trump as an incarnation of the immortal spirit of fascism whose doing was set out in the beginning of times, very much gets in the way of this process.
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And both anticipating the situation correctly and acting adequately require taking into account the idiosyncratic weirdness of the USA in general and Trump's movement in particular.
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