What all of Trump’s closest allies—including six justices of the Supreme Court—are steadily moving toward is an approximation of Germany’s Enabling Act of 1933, which was indeed just a beginning, but was also the last effective hurdle that the NSDAP had to surmount before continuing to their ultimate conclusion. The argument that Trump and his adherents don’t really intend to do what they say they will do has been refuted by their actions again and again. The argument that, as a practical matter, Trump-controlled elements of government and party could not carry out most of what Trump and his adherents promise to do is just touchingly and naively optimistic. In Europe in the 1930s, many pessimists got out of Europe in time; the optimists rarely survived.
What all of Trump’s closest allies—including six justices of the Supreme Court—are steadily moving toward is an approximation of Germany’s Enabling Act of 1933, which was indeed just a beginning, but was also the last effective hurdle that the NSDAP had to surmount before continuing to their ultimate conclusion. The argument that Trump and his adherents don’t really intend to do what they say they will do has been refuted by their actions again and again. The argument that, as a practical matter, Trump-controlled elements of government and party could not carry out most of what Trump and his adherents promise to do is just touchingly and naively optimistic. In Europe in the 1930s, many pessimists got out of Europe in time; the optimists rarely survived.