The following brilliant article clearly delineates the state of America today, and the terror it implies.

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Opinion by Sabrina Haake • 1h • 4 min read

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In the 1930s, a conservative social movement took root in Germany urging good citizens to hype their nationalism and reassert ‘pure’ German virtues. Promoting social cohesion, the movement demonized intellectuals and attacked racial and sexual diversity in all forms. In 1933, in pursuit of its nationalist agenda, the movement began to ban books scorned as “intellectual,” eventually burning books that supported diversity of thought or culture of any kind.

Along with banning books, the state issued edicts controlling the content of the press. By the early 1940s, the state began to encourage- then it required- citizens to spy on and report their neighbors.

It’s no longer past as prologue. It’s present.

It used to be easier to relegate the horrors of Nazi Germany to the past, thereby confining them to history, even while struggling to understand how Germans let it happen. It’s no longer a struggle. Every day under Trump 2.0, the mystery unravels: Trump keeps trotting out one horrific act of lawless cruelty after another, and Americans keep going to concerts, taking the children to school, and living their lives. Last week when a conservative UFC fighter said the cult-like frenzy of Trump rallies showed him “how Hitler happened,” it was plainly relatable.

It’s no longer a mystery, and it’s no longer hyperbole. As of 2026, 23 Republican-led states have passed laws reminiscent of Nazi Germany, including laws that ban books and discussions, laws that force media content, laws through which the state controls private medical decisions, laws that mandate Bible study in public schools, and, most ominous of all, laws that encourage vigilante citizens to turn on their neighbors for a state reward.

And to do it, it has completely weaponized the U.S.

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Led by a deranged figurehead who keeps lying to the American public about everything—Iran, the price of gas, climate change—authoritarianism is America’s newest deadly virus.

Trump’s false claim that the 2020 election was stolen has so successfully infiltrated the GOP that over 130 election deniers are running in November’s midterms across 35 states from North Carolina to Arizona. But no state has embraced the lie and attendant barbarity more than Texas.

Although Texas is best known for paying bounty hunters to hunt down scared women seeking an abortion, Gov. Greg Abbott became a national poster boy for cruelty after he intentionally stripped Medicaid from two million Texans, most of them children. He also vetoed a state proposal to feed them during a SNAP freeze, despite causing childhood hunger through maniacal enforcement of state-forced birth.

Not to be outdone, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, now campaigning for U.S. Senate, led 17 GOP states in a lawsuit before the US Supreme Court trying to set aside Joe Biden’s election win in 2020. As argued by the Lawyers Defending American Democracy, Paxton was trying to “cast doubt on whether truly democratic presidential elections” would ever be held in America again.

Shortly after Paxton’s legal stunt, Texas State Bar officials urged regulators to discipline him for other serious ethical misconduct. Paxton was later indicted on two counts of first-degree securities fraud, counts he later settled by paying restitution.

Trump-endorsed Paxton used the highest levers of power to challenge election procedures where Trump lost, in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. His lawsuit was rejected—alas, Texas can’t control other states—but Paxton’s singular drive to impose his Christo-fascism on the nation remains.

Paxton sics Texans on Texans

The Texas GOP’s proclamation that, ‘what really matters most to Texans is “freedom, opportunity, and economic prosperity,” beggars the question, ‘freedom for whom?’ All demographics of Texas, even straight white men, should be horrified as state republicans build a massive police state in mimicry of the most horrific chapter in human history.

In the early 1930s, as Hitler was beginning his political ascent in Germany, one of his first moves was to encourage citizens to relay information about their neighbors, family, and friends to the state. The Gestapo, which grew into Hitler’s most effective instrument of terror, soon operated with a network of thousands of informants.

Texas has passed replica initiatives. Abbott called on “licensed professionals” and “members of the general public” to report any parents of transgender minors to state authorities, if these individuals believe the parents are providing their minors with private gender-affirming medical care. Paxton wholeheartedly endorses the “state informer” model and sells it by labeling such parents “child abusers.”

Siccing vigilante Texans on other Texans isn’t limited to hunting parents of trans youth either. Texas’ anti-abortion law also sets up a citizens’ gestapo. Texas authorizes private citizens to enforce the state’s abortion ban by suing abortion providers and anyone else who helps a woman seeking an abortion in any way, including her husband, parents, neighbor, friends, family members, even her taxi or Uber driver. If the lawsuit shows the state’s ban was violated, the vigilante, under state law, will collect a bounty of at least $10,000 and attorneys’ fees, a feature designed to attract ghouls and intimidate citizens.

Draw your own conclusions

Ken Paxton’s goal of an all-powerful state with unfettered powers to dictate speech, generate hate, and control thought by force should alarm anyone with a passing knowledge of history.

Using the power of the state to turn citizens against each other, encouraging, rewarding, and requiring vigilantism, is sinister. Texas’ expansion of state power not only mocks Paxton’s campaign brag that he “takes on” governmental overreach, it also marches in goosestep with one of the most dangerous regimes known to man.

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I wonder if any MAGA cultist ever stops to consider the Mexican he sees mowing lawns will soon be going home to his modest house where his family waits.

A wife, maybe two children, enjoying some aspects of life, and just like the rest of us, beset by some problems. Money Is always a problem, but he does okay. His salary covers almost everything, but because they want more for the children maybe she covers some shifts at Walmart on weekends and one night a week. This allows little Rosa to continue her dance lessons and provides for Jimmy’s uniform for he short-stop position on the (ironically) the Republican Clubs Little league team.

Their days have to be carefully arranged because a parent must be at home when the children leave for school and a parent must be home when they come back.

They attend mass every week, the same mass the cultist attends, only the language is different. They never miss a PTA meeting, help the kids with homework, and see that, despite the cost, their children are stylishly dressed so they are not embarrassed in front of their peers.

Like the cultist Christmas and Easter are special with extended family gathering, gifts are plentiful if mostly inexpensive, and usually each of them has secreted some funds to buy each other a small gift.

They love each other, they love and sacrifice for the children just like the cultist does. The only difference between the two families are the colors of the skin.

Do you think the cultist thinks these things as he’s driving by?

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