The creation of a dictatorship, 1933-34. In January 1933, Hitler became Chancellor of Germany but his real aim was to become a dictator. Before he could realize his ambition, he needed to gain enough seats to be in a position strong enough to allow him to make the changes that would lead to his goal.
The, so called, Republican Party could care less about what Trumps does. The party, no longer those fiscally conservative, but Evangelical and White Nationalists, want the Presidency to be the ultimate power. Too nullified civil liberties, and destroy the Constitution, by misinterpreting the 2nd amendment.
Let see how the Supreme Court acts when they come back in-session...
The Fourth Reich is currently experiencing a new phase of normalization, Thanks to the tumultuous political upheaval throughout the western world, the concept is becoming increasingly universalized. The election of Donald Trump, the many unending conflicts in the Middle East, and the continuing crisis of the European Union have made the prospect of a future Reich highly relevant.
The term "Fourth Reich" has been used in a variety of different ways. Neo-Nazis have used it to describe their envisioned revival of an ethnically pure state, mostly in reference to, but not limited to, Nazi Germany.
Four things prepared the ground for the German Dictatorship of Hitler
The first was a disdain for elites of any kind, stirred up deliberately to encourage a sense of grievance in the masses of people who had suffered in the economic collapse .
The second was an understanding of the importance of a well-orchestrated propaganda machine. In the person of Joseph Goebbels Hitler discovered one of the great geniuses of modern political propaganda.
The third was putting into place all the apparatus of a police state in which the tasks of surveillance, intelligence and punishment were divided between the Gestapo and the state security service, SS.
All this prepared the ground for the fourth and final step that would enforce total and unquestioning loyalty to the Fatherland: war.
Those four stages in the death of German democracy do not have any exact modern equal, but there are elements that should be disturbingly familiar to us as precursors.
The disparagement of elites as imagined co-conspirators with the “deep state” was part of Donald Trump’s playbook from the beginning, and remains a familiar theme, reinforced by the bigoted chorus of Steve Bannon and Breitbart and, moving deeper into the shadows, by white supremacists.
Trump’s base was incubated and indoctrinated by a “full bore state propaganda channel” of the kind that Goebbels would have loved to have had at hand – Fox News.
While we are nowhere near approaching a police state we have readily succumbed to a degree of state surveillance of questionable legality on the basis that it is essential for national security.
But it may well be that the real warning here is the reverse of what it at first seems to be, the emergence of a demagogue in the form of Trump.
Trump certainly has some of the instincts of a demagogue. He clearly loves strongmen to the point of idolatry. Could, Trump, actually be a weak man hiding behind the aspirations of a strongman. Intellectually he is, to say the least, weak and lazy. This kind of weakness in a president is dangerous.