Screaming "Trump is Hitler" is not a solution to anything,

It’s not supposed to be a solution to any specific single issue. It’s a warning at the macro level that Trump is following the same authoritarian path as Hitler.

Hitler was elected using the agreed upon process of the time. Then he dismantled that process piece by piece, like authoritarians before and after him have done, until the entire system of government had been bent and twisted and reshaped to his will.

That what we are beginning to see with Trump.

If Trump neither stops nor changes, we will continue down the path to an authoritarian government.

Get far enough along, and the arguments over abortion and 2nd amendment rights and Obamacare subsidies and immigration and climate change and inflation and interest rates and a whole host of other issues important to one side of the aisle or the other won’t matter. Everything will be decided by the authoritarian and not by any kind of democratic or legal process. And if anyone crosses the strongman or his acolytes, they will be dealt with harshly and without recourse.

—Peter