2020 was our Beer Hall Putsch. It failed. Remember when Hitler failed seize power? Conservative elites allowed his rehabilitation, his poisoning of their institutions. It was years until he could do "deportations". And—I cannot stress this enough—*that is what they called it*. "Deportations".

This is what a record of "mass deportations" looks like. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline…

We are past "it could happen here". It *IS* happening here. It just hasn't all happened *yet*.

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Godwin's law looms over all discourse so I try not to bring this up constantly but *I* am constantly thinking about it when looking at the news.

My great grandparents' names are on that list I just linked. And when we were learning about what the other kids in school would call "the holocaust", my grandmother would often speak about her experience using french words and phrases, because, you know. It happened to her, and when it happened to her it happened in french.

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And that's the word she would use, in French. "Déportations". As in "mémorial des déportations", which is what a lot of holocaust museums are called in France.

For me, the phrase "mass deportation" has a visceral resonance more like "fucking kill your whole family" than "fiscal policy".

Which makes me feel absolutely insane when horse-race pundits say it. "Will fucking killing your whole family reduce housing prices? Fucking killing your whole family is very popular among men 18-34."

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So, yeah. Make a plan to vote for Democrats. Donate to Democrats. Get out the vote for Democrats. A vote for Democrats might not be perfect, but it is a vote *against* fucking killing somebody's whole family.

Of course the Maga party is not *exactly* the Nazi party, I do not think Jews will be first on the list; we will not have a play-by-play Holocaust re-run. But they *are* playing the hits by starting with "the communists", which some of you may recall begins a famous poem.

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