It's really funny when Trump fans, who live in an entirely disconnected alternate reality of lies and disinformation complain about "lying".
It's mind-blowing. They exist in a fully functioning, separate, closed circuit informational ecosystem, in which they are provided highly edited and distorted "information", and they ask questions like this.
A group psychosis this world hasn't seen in 85 years. But worse, because it is an insulated, entirely separate world that only feeds on itself.
When I studied my country's history from 70-90 years ago, the Nazis' rise to power, media often played a side role. I wonder if it's worth taking another look at the 1920s and 30s, as what we're seeing in America today sheds a new light on the events then:
Like, that the radio had just been invented and the Nazis masterfully played with the new medium, while most "old" politicians who supported the Republic were too unflexible dealing with the new medium.
Or that the Hugenberg media conglomerate owned more than 50% of all German newspapers by the end of the 1920s and massively supported the Nazis with absurd propaganda narratives.
Of all the things that concern me about today is that back then, the people's eyes were opened essentially overnight, and the madness faded far enough and quickly enough for that country to move forward with the process of healing.
Not so, today. Their propaganda machine is churning on, full speed, 24/7/365, and the figure in the middle is still here and continues to feed into it for his own gain. So we literally are in uncharted and dangerous territory here.
Yes, I agree, as long as the Republicans are still in Trump's pocket, you're still at the brink of tyranny.
Trump may be gone for the time being, but his supporters are still there, the huge fake news propaganda machine is still there and his fake narratives are still there. If a Republican wins the next election, and he's just as reckless as Trump but just a tiny bit smarter ... then the experiment of more than 200 years of freedom, democracy and constitutional rule are over.
I've still enough Christian influences left to know that there cannot be forgiveness without remorse ... so there can be no healing, as long as Republicans still suck up to Trump and his methods.
1945 in Germany, Nazism had failed spectacularly and constitutionalists were in power ... as for America today, I'd look at another analogy to German history: The right-wing lie of a "dagger thrust from behind" that caused Germany to lose WW1, a conspiracy theory that claimed Germany was undefeated on the field, but only lost because liberals, communists and Jews at home had caused the homefront to collapse.
This propaganda lie was a major tool in the Nazis' rhetorics when they increased their public support and paved their way to power.