Stephen Miller’s Joseph Goebbels impersonation is no accident, and neither is the behavior of the regime he’s currently steering. What we’re witnessing is not history rhyming, it’s plagiarism.
I asked ChatGPT to give me the top 20 ways the Trump regime is modeling the beginning of the Third Reich. Took it about a second to spit this out.




FYI: I have deep concerns about the use of AI. I never use it to write. However, in a supremely fractured and toxic information environment, it can do a good job of providing a quick, fairly accurate picture of the current state of popular knowledge.
It should be no great surprise that there are similarities between the Trump regime and Hitler’s dictatorship, but none of it is accidental, it’s essentially a fetish with Nazism, both in terms of symbolism and actions.
Like his mentor David Horowitz, Stephen Miller, who was born to a Jewish family, seems to have studied the Third Reich and the Holocaust, but rather than seeing it as a cautionary horror, saw it as a blueprint for operationalizing their own hatred.
Hitler saw systematic violence as a necessary and righteous way to accomplish his genocidal desires. A critical component of his strategy was to whitewash state terrorism with the use military force—and vice versa.
Trump’s Fourth Reich is also deploying this dual strategy. While anonymous thugs getting less than $30 an hour to be bounty hunters for ICE are violently kidnapping people across the US, Trump is ordering the military to get us into a war with Iran based on “instincts.”
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As I write, Iran has just fired back at US bases in the region with a relatively minor, and apparently performative response to America bombing three nuclear sites yesterday. Iran warned Qatar that it was going to fire missiles at a base on its territory in advance, the missiles were easily shot down, and no casualties have been reported.
Whether Iran intends to leave it at that, or Trump, is impossible to predict, but as Julia Davis writes, the Russians are not only comparing Trump to Hitler but believe he will escalate the conflict to the use of tactical nuclear weapons, which will clear the way for Putin to do the same.
Last week, during his show The Evening With Vladimir Solovyov, leading propagandist and TV host Vladimir Solovyov not only asserted Trump would strike Iran but even predicted that he would eventually resort to nuclear weapons. After the attacks, Solovyov was even more adamant that after Iran retaliates, the US president will amp up his approach and employ nukes. Russian experts rub their hands at the thought since in their view this would clear the way to Kremlin use of nuclear strikes to break the deadlock in Ukraine.
Military expert Evgeny Buzhinsky pointed out that Iran’s retaliation might eventually become nuclear. He said: “From my point of view, they have every opportunity to create a nuclear warhead.” When other pundits questioned where this weapon would undergo its testing, Solovyov suggested they might skip this step and immediately use it for a strike. Laughing, Buzhinsky concurred: “Yes, they might hit Israel with it.”
Russia’s primary geopolitical leverage is its nuclear stockpile. The fear of nuclear war, intentionally amplified by Russian operatives, like Tulsi Gabbard, has been extensively used by Putin as a force-multiplier for his relatively middling armed forces.
During his Sunday show on June 22, Solovyov asserted: “We need to move on to a very proactive political game. The time for this is ideal — simply ideal.”
He called on Moscow to form military alliances with other countries and stated: “It’s clear that a big world war is inevitable.“
On 2/27/1933, Hitler used the Reichstag Fire to consolidate his power through the Enabling Act. In 2001, George Bush used 9/11 to consolidate his power through the Patriot Act—which led to DHS and ICE. Whether Hitler knew about the Reichstag Fire is unknown, but what is known is that Bush was clearly warned ahead of time about 9/11 and did nothing.


Similarly, Netanyahu knew 10/7 was coming, but turned away to keep himself in office and consolidate his power in both Israel and the United States—which paid off with the acquiescence of the Biden administration to Bibi’s war crimes, and the election of Donald J. Trump.
Trump, with his troupe of naziphiles in tow, has now put us in a situation where the same agency creating pogroms and concentration camps is also supposed to protect us from a “heightened threat environment from” jihadist terrorism.
Recently, when asked if he would do a full investigation into any attack on American assets by the Iranians, Trump said:
“Well, if there's an attack, we'll know almost immediately with modern equipment who made the attack, and those people will be very, very unhappy. I want to get you people out of danger.”
In other words: “Trust me bro.”
In my view, Trump is essentially begging for terrorism or some other shock event to enact martial law, suspend habeas corpus, and start to lock up his political opponents using the gestapo he has built at ICE, and the military.
Let’s be careful out there.
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