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Remember: Nazis do not gain power, which is rule by consent -- just like incels raping women they gave roofies to do not gain love.
Their first victim is always themselves, and it's always sad, actually. Nobody wants to become a Nazi. But nobody asked or asks to be the victim of Nazis, either, so that's where the friction comes in, and the priorities, and the need to handle them as the perpetrators they are and to disarm them, before moving to treat them as the victims they also are.
> As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.
-- Abraham Lincoln
> The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other. This technique is as old as the hills; it was practiced in almost every Greek city, and the moderns have only enlarged its scale.
-- Bertrand Russel