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Oh ffs, this is such a terminally online take. You're not the equivalent of a Jew during the Holocaust nor is Trump Hitler and MAGA Nazis. Don't get me wrong, Trump is vile person to his core. He has no redeemable qualities and his policies have done a lot of harm. His supporters are also brain dead morons who operate like a cult. I'm with you there, BUT despite that, we have to operate within the context of our reality.

The reality is that Trump and MAGA aren't the equivalent of the Nazis, not everything you don't like is Nazi equitable. This is the problem with modern discourse, our education system is rotten that people literally cannot comprehend history outside of WWII. History did not stop and end there, and the vast majority that happens in the world is not comparable to those specific time period. There are a lot of other wannabe dictators in history like Orban or Modi or Erdogan or Yeltsin or Haftar or whatever. Worst case scenario is that Trump does become a dictator, however, 99.99% of dictators of History aren't like Hitler, he was uniquely evil.

With that being said, Trump isn't a dictator now, and we have a very real chance of defeating him democratically. We have a very large and powerful coalition against him, we have all the dirt against him, we are using the national due process, and we are using legitimate means to achieve power in this country. All that political violence would do is give Trump and his supporters the rationale to justify that they are right, that Trump is a martyr, and that it is okay for them to use even more violence. We can't stoop down to their level and become like them. We have to shut down that type of behavior, not normalize it.

Do you know why? It's because we want to live in a civil society where peaceful democratic power transfers is the one and only legitimate means of gaining power. We can't go on self righteous moral crusades where we use violence on people we don't like to achieve political goals. Do you know why? Because that's terrorism by definition, and to use something you're familiar with, it's what the Nazis did. Political violence is wrong on principle. It's wrong when Trump and his cult do it, it's wrong when we do it, it's wrong when anybody does it.