> there are jokes about turning refugees into handbags and boots, discussions of whether refugees should be shot at the border, a Christmas card sent with a swastika and “Heil Hitler”, and an email thread signed off with “Heil und Sieg”.
Obviously all very moderate and centrist behaviour.
Yes people who have no right to be in the country are sent to detention centers until they can be deported. That's how it works in every country, not just the US.
Well for starters we have past experience. I think it's a gross lack of faith to pretend we're just going to repeat the same things.
A far right government today may not be to everyone's liking, but it would obviously not look the same at all that something born out of the early 20th century consciousness.
It wouldn't look the same so nothing to worry about?
It didn't look the same as prior art back then either, but millions of innocent people were sent to gas chambers to die.
"Not to everyone's liking" is putting it so mildly as to be frankly sickening. A reminder that we're talking about "shooting refugees at the border and turning them into handbags."
Where did anyone say they would bring back the Third Reich? That's a strawman. And you seem to have moved the goalposts too about calling them "far right."
People have a very reasonable worry that voting for people who talk about executing refugees (note the term "refugee" and not "economic migrant") might actually enact the policies they speak of.
Any association with the Third Reich reasonably comes from their use of Nazi symbolism and use of Nazi slogans.
Insisting on calling economic migrants "refugees" is part of a long list of reasons why support for AfD and similar parties is growing. So good job on doing their campaigning for them.
I'm quoting them directly, not insisting on anything. They're talking about shooting these people and turning them into fashion accessories; I don't care what you call them, s an abhorrent way to talk about any group of people and I would urge you to reflect on what you're seemingly defending.
The parallels are striking. Now the outgroup is immigrants instead of jews.
Give angry people an outgroup to vent their anger and hate, one can become the ruler of the nation. US did not get a great economy by incarcerating or throwing those few thousand immigrants out. Its economy is currently getting messed up by stupid policies. But people need an outgroup to hate and it is enough for the right wings to get to power.
> This idea that somehow it just starts with small things, and then before you know it, the Third Reich is back. Come on. It's 2026.
And in 2026 we see the state of US going exactly in that direction. Humans are pretty predictable and something similar to Third Reich will happen before you know it. "This time will be different" is hope. Not a given.
> In email after email, party supporters use racist slurs and share antisemitic theories of Jewish world domination; there are jokes about turning refugees into handbags and boots, discussions of whether refugees should be shot at the border, a Christmas card sent with a swastika and “Heil Hitler”, and an email thread signed off with “Heil und Sieg”.
Yes this "so-called far right" is totally sane and normal.
