The first person to compare the other to Hitler loses the argument. Them’s the rules.
There was another who was going to make his country great again.
A country frustrated by unemployment, by communist bullcrap, by a failing economy, by feelings of military inferiority, of lost prestige on the world stage.
In their ire the people voted for the outsider, the guy who promised them greatness and vengeance against those who had created the situation.
He promised to get the burden of the non-producers off of the people's collective back. He promised to rid them of the evils of those he deemed to be unfit to be in the country. He focused the people's hatred onto those groups as he built up the military, inside the country and out, for 'national security'.
His police were militarized and under ultimate central control.
He did this in a country where, in the schools, the youth had been focused on their physical being, where the classes all had a purpose, to raise little supporters who would march in lockstep with the State, and any opinion which did not support that State was considered treasonous.
He put his country back to work. He even garnered the praise of some of those who would, in a few years fight him in one of the bloodiest conflicts in world history.
He started out working with the rest of the government but soon abolished it. They stood in the way of his vision.
He even said he would fight the communists, and did.
By then, no one who was not an ardent supporter out of love either became one out of fear, or for the money, or whispered their dissent carefully to those they trusted at their peril, because if they were found out they would be stripped of their belongings, position, rank, and credentials for the good of the country, hunted down, and exterminated.
Stuff Godwin's law. We are on a very real social precipice and this is no time for political correctness.
If you can't see the parallels, you haven't looked.
Normalcy bias won't prevent it, only reason and adhering to the Constitution will.
Principles are more important than ever.