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I don't think this article gives weight to your fears.

It says he had total control over the media, and that he had huge approval. Neither is true today. The last three presidents (Bush, Obama, Trump), were around 60% (excluding 9/11) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_app...

Also, what would be the unifying sentiment that the white supremacists would unite the whole country around, like this:

> For the vast majority of Germans, the restoration of national pride and military strength, the overthrowing of the Versailles Treaty and the expansion of the Reich to incorporate ethnic Germans from Austria and the Sudetenland were goals in themselves

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> It says he had total control over the media, and that he had huge approval. Neither is true today.

This was not the case when Hitler first became Chancellor or, even moreso, when his faction first took undisputed control of the Nazi Party.

It was true sometime after he'd done both, and used the propaganda power (and coercive power) of both the state and party to secure his hold on the public. (One clear difference, whatever parallels there might be, is that Trump only really started the fight for undisputed control of the GOP after becoming President; that makes the internal fight much more visible to outsiders, but also wants if he wins it, he won't have as many other barriers to cross to implement his plans as Hitler did after taking over the Nazis.)

> It says he had total control over the media, and that he had huge approval. Neither is true today.

Oh, that's all fake news.

> restoration of national pride and military strength

Is exactly what is happening in the USA right now.

> the overthrowing of the Versailles Treaty

The United States just backed out of a whole slew of treaties which it considered 'unfair' to the country.

> the expansion of the Reich to incorporate ethnic Germans from Austria and the Sudetenland were goals in themselves

Well, fortunately such an accident of Geography is not present in the current situation.