Post by Anne Applebaum / Redsky

Yep.

aug 27, 2025, 5:50 am • 0 0 • view

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aug 27, 2025, 6:06 am • 0 0 • view

I agreed the US was heading for dictatorship, but I did not have the imagination, that it would be a communist dictatorship where it now seems to be headed.

aug 27, 2025, 6:30 am • 0 0 • view

1933-2025

aug 27, 2025, 6:42 am • 0 0 • view

@kamalaharris.com laid it all out before the election, but apathy and ElonMusk rigging the voting machines has put us where we are… with a Fascist Moron in the White House!!!

aug 27, 2025, 5:37 am • 12 2 • view

I will never get over the large percentage of non-voters. They're infuriating.

aug 27, 2025, 5:59 am • 10 0 • view

I know! It pissed me off so much!!! How can you not care enough to vote!

aug 27, 2025, 7:46 am • 0 0 • view

According to the Pew Research Center and others. If the nonvoters had voted, the OT would have won with a slightly higher margin. This means that the problem is deeply rooted in the US population.

aug 27, 2025, 6:48 am • 2 0 • view

It's because of misinformation. (Fox lies)

aug 27, 2025, 7:20 am • 2 0 • view

As Mrs Applebaum states, everything was completely transparent and predictable. In Russia, the regime forcefeeds the people with insane propaganda. In the US, people gobbles it down on their own free will / Denmark

aug 27, 2025, 8:40 am • 6 1 • view

and lack of education & critical thinking. Good read on the psychology of masses: bsky.app/profile/germ...

aug 27, 2025, 9:02 am • 1 0 • view

I agree 100%. Countless people warned. Justice failed on every level bsky.app/profile/chri...

aug 27, 2025, 5:46 am • 6 1 • view

He'll be known as Chairman Moan.

aug 27, 2025, 5:54 am • 1 0 • view

Some Americans have not heard of Truth Social. Any way of staving off that knowledge-desert?

aug 27, 2025, 9:30 am • 0 0 • view

No shit!

aug 27, 2025, 10:37 am • 0 0 • view

🤬🤬🤬

aug 27, 2025, 10:26 am • 0 0 • view

Trump and the MAGA movement are, by nature, neo-fascist. The continued refusal of many elites and media outlets to call it what it is will cost America dearly.

aug 27, 2025, 3:30 pm • 3 0 • view

thank you SO SO much for the work you do to promote democracy and to fight fascism

aug 27, 2025, 3:27 pm • 0 0 • view

Yes he would & has. 🤨

aug 27, 2025, 5:46 am • 0 0 • view

aug 27, 2025, 5:45 am • 0 0 • view

Trump is a reverse Midas: everything he touches turns to shit. I fear for the future of the Republican Party, the United States, democracy, the economy, science, and the Western world. Trump is not a revolutionary, he's an arsonist.

aug 27, 2025, 8:18 am • 2 0 • view

Thank you, Ms. Applebaum. You're a guiding light.

aug 27, 2025, 5:58 am • 3 0 • view

He's modelling Hitler. Ivana told us he kept inspirational writings on his bed side table. It would be comical, if not so dire, that America is letting a made up orange clown with the charisma of a toilet brush lead it into fascism.

aug 27, 2025, 6:19 am • 7 0 • view

He is Marmite man. Unfortunately, for millions of Americans he IS charismatic and not at all terrifying.

aug 27, 2025, 12:16 pm • 1 0 • view

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aug 27, 2025, 6:34 am • 0 0 • view

Many of us have been predicting this slide to fascism in US and UK since 2016. It's no comfort to be proved right. France and Germany will probably follow because the progressive side of politics prefer to squabble amongst themselves about issues in the middle east and toilets.

aug 27, 2025, 6:57 am • 0 0 • view

It would be overly pessimistic to assume that America’s authoritarian drift will be replicated elsewhere. Even in the States, Trump’s overall approval rating has dipped below 40% and he faces a lot of powerful opposition.

aug 27, 2025, 12:42 pm • 0 0 • view

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aug 27, 2025, 8:51 am • 0 0 • view

Week before the election I got mocked on X by a longtime follower for saying Trump would have concentration camps and end democracy. Only thing that confuses me is why it wasn't obvious to everyone. He said it out loud and printed signs at his convention saying exactly this.

aug 27, 2025, 6:53 am • 4 0 • view

Note that I didn't say Trump IS Hitler, just that he was deliberately using language borrowed from Mein Kampf (immigrants "poisoning the blood" of the nation) which foretold extremist intentions

aug 27, 2025, 6:42 am • 642 77 • view

His new hat slogan comes from Mussolini. The fact that our media and opposition politicians are failing to point out these parallels is indicative of the depth of our problems.

aug 27, 2025, 9:47 am • 1 0 • view

Yes, and he's surrounded by people who have drunk the flavorade of mythic history.

aug 27, 2025, 9:59 am • 0 0 • view

Trump is not Hitler, but he's definitely Hitler-ing.

aug 28, 2025, 4:57 pm • 0 0 • view

Don't forget vermin - saying people were vermin who needed to be rooted out. That's straight up Hitler-ing.

aug 28, 2025, 4:57 pm • 0 0 • view

It's like they say, history does not repeat itself, but it surely rhymes...

aug 27, 2025, 7:52 am • 0 0 • view

he is a sui generis fascist

aug 27, 2025, 3:46 pm • 0 0 • view

A distinction worthy of note.

aug 27, 2025, 6:46 am • 0 0 • view

No need for the correction… he’s just like Hitler.. I would not be surprised if these deportations lead mass murder. We need to stop him.

aug 27, 2025, 9:44 am • 1 0 • view

All dictators, like cult leaders, are ultimately the same. They use division and hatred and promises to keep them safe from wrongdoers to keep their people in line, without them ever realising they're being controlled, used and subjugated

aug 27, 2025, 9:24 am • 3 0 • view

Of course he isn't, Hitler wasn't working for a foreign power, he is Vidkun Quisling.

aug 27, 2025, 7:34 am • 3 0 • view

…so just talks like a duck then

aug 27, 2025, 7:24 am • 1 0 • view

Trump did two "Roman salutes" from the top of the White House. Imagine a president doing that in any other era. Imagine if Nixon had done it. All we can say is that Trump isn't LITERALLY Hitler.

aug 27, 2025, 7:04 am • 0 0 • view

Trump is worse than Hitler. Literally. I write this on the 81st anniversary of my mom's cattle car journey from the Lodz ghetto to Auschwitz. Trump has a more malevolent personality than Hitler's. Darker, more dangerous.

aug 28, 2025, 5:00 am • 0 0 • view

During his divorce proceedings from his first wife, she testified that he slept with Hitler’s speeches by the bed. That was reported in 1995, I believe. Not shocking. Ugh.

aug 27, 2025, 7:00 am • 4 2 • view

He and Trump have so much in common.

aug 28, 2025, 8:35 am • 0 0 • view

JD Vance said, “Trump is America’s Hitler”

aug 27, 2025, 8:27 am • 1 0 • view

As his British counterpart, the unspeakable Farage is doing too. Common human decency seems to be going out the window & they claim to be “Christian” too, presumably on the basis the world has learned nothing since the crusades

aug 27, 2025, 6:47 am • 13 1 • view

Andreas @puettmann.bsky.social coined the term „christianists“ for these hypocritical fanatics who resemble islamists.

aug 27, 2025, 7:02 am • 4 0 • view

"Christo-Fascists" does it too. Minted by Dorothee Sölle, a German theologian in the 70s.

aug 27, 2025, 8:55 am • 5 0 • view

So does Bjoern Hoecke in Germany from the #AfD “Everything for Germany” (NAZI SA slogan) “Berlin’s Holocaust memorial is a ‘monument of shame.” (2017 Speech)

aug 27, 2025, 9:00 am • 1 0 • view

#Hoecke Plagiarizing Hitler's "Mein Kampf" (1 of 2) “A few corrections and small reforms won’t be enough, but the German absoluteness will guarantee that we will tackle the matter thoroughly and fundamentally.”

aug 27, 2025, 9:00 am • 1 0 • view

(2 of 2) “The longing of the Germans for a historical figure, who will once again heal the wounds of the people, overcome the strife, and put things in order is deeply rooted in our soul.”

aug 27, 2025, 9:00 am • 0 0 • view

No need to stress the distinction. Those who can see Trump clearly already understand, and for those who worship Trump, they will disingenuously claim that it’s a distinction without a difference.

aug 27, 2025, 7:39 am • 3 0 • view

He is acting like Hitler now.

aug 27, 2025, 8:35 am • 0 0 • view

He's quoted hitler verbatim on occasion, and coveted his generals. So..

aug 27, 2025, 9:01 am • 1 0 • view

I can clarify...Trump is not Hitler, just like him in many ways. #Hitlerlite

aug 27, 2025, 3:50 pm • 1 0 • view

Trump is actually worse than Hitler; darker, more malevolent, less rational. Study their lives. I write this on the 81st anniversary of my mom's cattle car journey from the Lodz ghetto to Auschwitz.

aug 28, 2025, 5:08 am • 0 0 • view

I have been saying that Trump is worse than Hitler for a long time. My conclusion is based on analytical psychology and diving deeply into their formative years. Trump may be the most dangerous man ever to exist: A U.S president displaying the Dark Triad and sadism.

aug 28, 2025, 4:54 am • 1 0 • view

In the late 20s/ early 30s, Hitler wasn't 'Hitler' either.

aug 27, 2025, 7:34 am • 0 0 • view

True, but removing senior government officers on account of race, sending the Army to occupy cities governed by the opposition, siding with totalitarian North Korea against democratic countries, and disappearing undesirables into concentrations camps is more than just talking like a fascist.

aug 27, 2025, 11:07 am • 0 0 • view

certainly, this is demonstrably true

aug 27, 2025, 6:43 am • 0 0 • view

Ms Applebaum please I need the lottery numbers for tonight's drawing!

aug 27, 2025, 11:46 am • 0 0 • view

Anyone with half a useful brain didn't need anyone to tell them the EXCREMENT RAPIST would destroy the country in 2nd stolen presidency.

aug 27, 2025, 11:45 am • 1 0 • view

But the idiots still voted for this, the orange man baby dictator literally told everyone with his incoherent rambling what he was going to do.

aug 27, 2025, 6:45 am • 3 1 • view

Word for word. Absolutely sickening to watch this happen. Horrible seeing it coming and watching the train wreck unfold in 3D all around us. Infuriating that half the country, congressional republicans & SCOTUS are cogsigning it all. Why?

aug 27, 2025, 5:57 am • 1 0 • view

never underestimate the ignorance of the American electorate

aug 27, 2025, 3:44 pm • 0 0 • view

For congressional Republicans - fascist tendencies among some, moral cowardice and graft among most of the rest.

aug 27, 2025, 12:24 pm • 0 0 • view

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aug 27, 2025, 6:47 am • 0 0 • view

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aug 27, 2025, 6:52 am • 0 0 • view

it also takes invested / corrupt appeasers to enable an autocrat... itc D elite (lobbied up pelosi, schumer et al) and most Rs.. capitulating given the history (eg~ Weimar etc) bsky.app/profile/auma...

aug 27, 2025, 8:27 pm • 1 0 • view

I think it was apparent to anyone with a baseline understanding of history and the time and inclination to pay attention. Unfortunately the current system makes both of these difficult for a vast majority of Americans. To the unlucky few, it’s been an approaching freight train at 3 AM

aug 27, 2025, 6:36 am • 2 0 • view

It seems to be the baseline understanding of history that was lacking in far too many.

aug 27, 2025, 12:19 pm • 2 0 • view

Agreed. I’m fortunate to have had teachers who taught the reasons why things happened; it sounds like most people were taught a list of dates and major battles and such.

aug 27, 2025, 12:21 pm • 0 0 • view

The Nuremberg-style rally at Madison Square Garden a few days before the election was basically a declaration of war on everybody they didn’t like. Anyone paying attention knew they were serious and it was going to be bad. Still some surprises in the details and the speed with which they’re moving.

aug 27, 2025, 11:21 am • 1 0 • view

He's only doing everything he said he was gonna do.

aug 27, 2025, 12:11 pm • 0 0 • view

Is there still anybody who thinks the man is not barking mad?

aug 27, 2025, 8:06 am • 0 0 • view

Well you hit that nail on the head.

aug 27, 2025, 6:39 am • 0 0 • view

yoi sure predicted the targeting of journalists in gaza

aug 27, 2025, 10:14 am • 0 0 • view

aug 27, 2025, 5:44 am • 0 0 • view

There's no comparison. Give him a few more years, though

aug 27, 2025, 6:07 am • 1 0 • view

Hitler didn't start out as a bloodthirsty killing machine, that took a good 10 years.

aug 27, 2025, 6:31 am • 1 0 • view

Very few understand this as well as you do, Anne.💜

aug 27, 2025, 9:54 am • 4 0 • view

Agree

aug 27, 2025, 9:55 am • 1 1 • view

As with most dictators, people don't take it seriously because it sounds so absurd - until it becomes reality!

aug 27, 2025, 9:49 am • 4 2 • view

Exactly, that must mean that the US population wants what is going on right now in their country. Is there another explanation? I'm of course ruling out that the US voters are ignorant morons. / Denmark

aug 27, 2025, 6:42 am • 0 0 • view

A slight majority of those who voted elected that madman in 2024. We have tens of millions of ignorant people, a very poor education system, vast right wing propaganda networks. From what I've read, you have some rotten people in Denmark too...just not the majority of the population.

aug 27, 2025, 3:42 pm • 0 0 • view

There is an increasing chance that Trump will indeed create another Holocaust.

aug 27, 2025, 6:54 am • 0 0 • view

most of us predicted that as well

aug 27, 2025, 2:22 pm • 0 0 • view

it's a dangerous game being played

aug 27, 2025, 11:16 am • 0 0 • view

Playbook. Tyrants will always go down.

aug 27, 2025, 5:56 am • 0 0 • view

I know.

aug 27, 2025, 6:59 am • 2 0 • view

Forgive me if I'm wrong because I don't see many examples of it, but I believe this is what is called journalism

aug 27, 2025, 1:25 pm • 0 0 • view

It's also the death knell of peaceful transfer of power that has been a norm for a quarter century. Political retribution is direct opposite of peaceful transition. This has been in process since the Civil War, the ultimate rejection of peaceful transition. What's next? bsky.app/profile/anne...

aug 27, 2025, 8:10 am • 1 1 • view

People think transition happens on Jan 20 and that is that. But when one side (Republicans) decide to reject it and respond with political retribution, it doesn't end until one side or the other is vanquished. That's always been why peaceful transition has been a sacred novelty in the new world.

aug 27, 2025, 8:16 am • 1 1 • view

Also 2, this guy and his cohort seem able to bypass the checks and balances in govt, skirting every US law and norm. The shifts in foreign policy to befriend traditional enemies is appalling. Have presidents always wielded that much power?

aug 27, 2025, 3:10 pm • 0 0 • view

Also, Trump seems to be ramping up changes and picking up the pace lately. Some say it's to deflect from Epstein, but I think they're implementing a tornado of plans from Project 2025 that will leave everyone reeling and without any coherent response.

aug 27, 2025, 3:02 pm • 0 0 • view