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What parallels do historians see between the Trump administration and the Nazi regime?
“Trump has strengthened his control on the police powers (the FBI, the Justice Department) and the military,” says Hayes. “Trump is vainglorious, solipsistic, and a bully preoccupied with demonstrating his strength. When things begin to unravel and opposition mounts, he and his backers will instinctively resort to violence.”
For his part, Browning doesn't expect the “immediate construction of a one-party, police-state dictatorship, as Hitler achieved in five months”.
Although he sees “considerable ‘democratic backsliding’ into an ‘illiberal democracy’” akin to the administration of Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Hungary, he points out that “the US constitution is very difficult to amend”, and “the US federal system with strong state governments cannot be overturned”.
“The pluralism and diversity of American society and a strong federal system of state governments, combined with the incompetence of so many Trump appointees, is the best hope of slowing down the erosion of democracy,” Browning says.
For his part, Browning doesn't expect the “immediate construction of a one-party, police-state dictatorship, as Hitler achieved in five months”.
Although he sees “considerable ‘democratic backsliding’ into an ‘illiberal democracy’” akin to the administration of Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Hungary, he points out that “the US constitution is very difficult to amend”, and “the US federal system with strong state governments cannot be overturned”.
“The pluralism and diversity of American society and a strong federal system of state governments, combined with the incompetence of so many Trump appointees, is the best hope of slowing down the erosion of democracy,” Browning says.
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250307-what-parallels-do-historians-see-between-the-trump-administration-and-the-nazi-regime
