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Like, there was a point where that may have been true, but not anymore. The only way to stop it now is by acknowledging that it is fundamentally hostile to the very concept of the Constitution, this they're the very problem representative democracy exists to solve...

ICE? MAGA. Kennedy the Eugenicist? MAGA. The PayPal Mafia? Turbo MAGA. The FOP? Literally endorsed MAGA. The ~30% of polled Americans who invariably support MAGA? That's MAGA in the flesh.

Great post. I fully agree and endorse the idea of turning the names they use for themselves into the pejorative name for their movement.

America needs to follow the lead of Estonia in escaping Russian oligarchs by creating a modern digital democracy with access to gov services and accountability from our reps with #ElectronicGovernance like this demo: MyVoteGov.org Tim Cook and Apple could lead the way instead of bowing to fascism.

A really excellent post and a very sharp point. But the fact is these guys *are* Nazis and even debating these fine points is beside the point. Interestingly, journalists at the time called them gangsters and thugs to communicate what they actually were. These terms remain apt.

The best mea culpa that Rauch can muster for why he's only seeing this now is, "When the facts change, I change my mind.". The facts were there all along - Trump's just (not surprisingly) having more success with his plan in his second term.

You are right, these labels are superficial and mostly false. ICE is not Gestapo, the Ge stands for geheim (secret). Comparing a whimp like Bovino to "real" Nazi leaders, come on. The USA has many flaws and MAGA is a big one. Use your one labels. Everything else is a diversion.

And it may seem like a small critique, but consider that on X The Everything App, "cis" is considered a "slur," and there's no world where calling someone a Nazi is the same as calling someone a f*g.

Brilliant post and perspective.

Came here to say this. Hirohito (or as the Japanese would word it, the Showa Emperor) remained emperor until 1989. How much shame he carried I don't know, but inside Japan at least I wouldn't say he lived in infamy.

A surprising number of political party names in history originated as slurs that the party eventually adopted. In 18th Century Britain, "Whig" and "Tory" were both like this. In 19th Century France, so were both "Ultra-royalists" and "Doctrinaires."