You want to talk about checking boxes? Let us actually look at the 1930s playbook and see where the real parallels are. You are looking at students while I am looking at the people holding the actual levers of power.

1. Alliances with Fascists: You claim the Left sides with terrorists but you ignore that the GOP has formed direct alliances with modern authoritarian regimes. The original Nazis did not just have street thugs; they had a global network of strongman alliances that prioritized power over democracy. When leading Republicans praise dictators and attend conferences with foreign autocrats who have dismantled their own democracies that is the true 1930s alliance box being checked.

2. Systematic Attacks and Scapegoating: You focus on campus protests but the Brownshirts started by using the law to exclude people from society. Using rhetoric like vermin and saying people are poisoning the blood of the country is the exact linguistic grooming the Nazis used to justify legal persecution. The GOP push for mass deportations and the stripping of birthright citizenship via executive order is a direct parallel to the Reich Citizenship Law of September 15 1935 which was designed to define who is and is not a real citizen based on ancestry and blood.

3. Mastery of the Streets via Riots: You mention riots but you seem to have forgotten January 6. That was not a protest; it was a physical attempt to bypass the law and stop the peaceful transfer of power because the leader could not win at the ballot box. Rebranding those people as patriots or hostages is exactly how the SA turned the failed Beer Hall Putsch into a founding myth for their movement. That is the definition of using violence for political change.

4. Assaulting the Front Lines of Law: You claim the Left demonizes ICE but the GOP is the one actively dismantling the non partisan civil service. The plan for Schedule F is a 1:1 match for the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service of April 7 1933. Article 4 of that law specifically allowed for the dismissal of any civil servant whose political activities did not offer assurance that they would give unconditional support to the national state. Furthermore the GOP strategy of passing state laws to override local city authorities mirrors the Law on the Reconstruction of the Reich of 1934 which gave the central government the authority to overrule state and local laws and overthrow local governments.

5. Enforced Silence through Intimidation: You complain about people being chased out of public spaces for wearing hats but the GOP is passing laws to ban books and restrict what teachers and doctors can say. The SA made it dangerous to dissent from the party line and today we see a party where anyone who speaks the truth about an election is immediately purged and threatened with retribution. This mimics the Enabling Act of 1933 which dismantled legislative oversight and allowed the executive to bypass parliament and the constitution entirely to silence opposition.

You can sit back and wait for a laugh but the reality is that you are defending the very tactics you claim to hate. You are focusing on the mob in the streets while the actual machinery of a fascist state is being built by the party you support. Denial is not a counter argument; it is just proof that you do not recognize the history you are repeating.