Does the US constitution have an emergency decree mechanism whereby the president can effectively assume full power and suspend civil rights?
Are the republican party committing acts of violence against their opposition, so as to push them out of Congress and establish a supermajority?
Has the US come out of a major recession exacerbated by a harsh post-war reparations treaty, resulting in hyperinflation and an angry and desperate population?
So what you really mean by "blindingly-salient historical parallels" is "there's an person in power who I don't like", so a typical leftist case of "everyone I don't like is Hitler".
Bit emotionally incontinent isn't it, letting your understanding of history be distorted by your desire to call a president you don't like bad names
> Are the republican party committing acts of violence against their opposition, so as to push them out of Congress and establish a supermajority?
Update: "The judge, for her part, seemed initially unconvinced that FBI agents could definitively prove that they were about to face political retaliation, saying, “a fear of something happening is not sufficient, even if the fear is a serious one,” she said. [¶] But she changed her tone by the end of the day. At one point, they could not guarantee that the DOJ has not already leaked the list, with lawyers specifying that DOJ has not “officially” done so. [¶] “There is no question that it would put a number of FBI agents and significant danger,”" [0]
> Does the US constitution have an emergency decree mechanism whereby the president can effectively assume full power and suspend civil rights?
It could well be in the offing: Egged on by Musk, Miller, etc. — and putting his people in position to give orders to the folks with badges and guns — Trump is seeing what he can get away with by way of executive orders. He's getting zero pushback from the governing GOP majority in Congress nor from any of his cabinet. That's Trump's long-established M.O.: Test the boundaries and guardrails, then go charging through the identified weak spots.
> Are the republican party committing acts of violence against their opposition, so as to push them out of Congress and establish a supermajority?
Pretty close: You might not have seen the news reports of GOP senators and representatives who've said privately that they oppose what Trump has been doing but they're afraid to cross him, out of fear of personal danger to themselves and their families from lunatic MAGA thugs who fancy themselves to be Trump's warriors — e.g., the January 6 rioters whom Trump whipped into a frenzy and then sent charging off to the Capitol.
(GOP senators' fear of personal danger reportedly was also part of the reason there weren't enough GOP Senate votes to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial, where conviction would have disqualified him from any office.)
> Bit emotionally incontinent isn't it, letting your understanding of history be distorted by your desire to call a president you don't like bad names
Call it what you will: I've been around for awhile and was long ago trained to look at trends, not just individual data points. (Life isn't a snapshot, it's a movie.) IMHO my take on events is sounder than what you've written; eventually we'll see whether one of us has his head in a warm dark place.
