just heard a bad take (from offsite)

"the US is not nazi germany because the nazis were popular, but trump is not"

this is very false, and a very dangerous thing to think

the nazis were also unpopular, never winning a majority of seats in the reichstag

in the march 1933 election (the last contested election until after the war), the nazis only won 43% of the vote. they had to join with the nationalist DNVP to create a governing coalition and even then they barely had a majority

this is despite extreme levels of street violence, extreme voter intimidation, and a complete ban on the popular communist party, and banning of campaigning by SPD (social democrat) and centre party candidates. and the election was only 6 days after the burning of the reichstag, which likely had at least a partial rally around the flag effect

i say this is a dangerous misconception because it makes it seem like resistance to trump as going better than the resistance to the nazis, but if anything i think it's going worse. in the weimar republic there was at least semi-effective institutional opposition in the form of communists and to a lesser extent the SPD. in the US we have the democrats, who are collaborating with and enabling the fascists at every turn, refusing to use the power they have

it's impossible to read the history of the centre party[2] and not see the democrats behaving almost exactly the same way: old and ineffective leaders, choosing to work with the fascists instead of the left wing, and constant appeasement. but that got them nowhere as the nazis swept them aside as soon as they were unneeded

the centre party was a small but strategically important party (winning ~12% of the vote), while the democrats supposedly represent the entire left half of the political spectrum

so i guess my point is, we're not nazi germany, and not everything is directly analogous, but in many ways we're actually doing worse at resisting fascism than they were

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1933_German_federal_election
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_Party_(Germany)#Between_coup_d'%C3%A9tat_and_authoritarian_democracy