[newacct583]

> Perhaps, but that wasn't a coup. Hitler actually won a democratic election.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933

His election to chancellor was arguably democratic. Everything that created the Third Reich was para/extra-legal machinations (c.f. the Reichstag fire!) of exactly the form that we saw attempted on Tuesday.

Trump and his mob weren't nearly as talented, so they failed. I still remain horrified that you won't take seriously what happened.

[incrudible]

Enough with the pearl clutching. Everybody condemned the riot, including Trump. He may have caused it, but he did not lead it.

Trump had four years to aggregate power through emergency laws, like Hitler. He had a golden opportunity to do so with COVID. He did not do it.

As much as you may want Trump to be like Hitler, so that you may call him and his supporters fascists, the actual facts do not support it. I stand by that. Feel free to disagree.