From a piece by Heather Delaney Reese on Substack - the whole piece is well worth a read, very scary stuff indeed. They said “It could never happen here”, but guess what? It IS happening right here and now When will the US wake up to its own destruction?

”It’s happening fast, but also just slow enough that people aren’t connecting the dots. And that’s exactly how it happened in the 1930s in Germany. Dachau opened in March 1933, just weeks after Hitler became chancellor. But those early camps were for political prisoners, dissidents, communists, anyone who pushed back. It took eight years to get from Dachau to the gas chambers. Eight years of dehumanizing specific groups, of propaganda, police violence, and the control of information. Eight years of people looking the other way and of loyalists being placed where watchdogs used to be. The systematic extermination, the Final Solution, didn’t begin until 1941. Each step normalized the next.

We are in the early years of that timeline now. The dehumanization of immigrants, purging of independent watchdogs, placement of loyalists in positions meant to check power, attacks on a free press, the use of law enforcement as a political weapon, and the normalization of cruelty. None of this is the end of the story. But every historian who studies this period will tell you that we are deep into the opening act of the story. But we still have time to stop it. That’s why we have to be honest about where we are. Our job is to call it out loudly and repeatedly.”

Heather Delaney Reese - Trump and the far-right media have a plan