For you youngsters out there, the “Third Reich” was what Hitler called his rule over German. Google the term and read the history. Needless to say, Hitler’s plan for a thousand-year rule didn’t last. When Hitler fell, so did his evil regime and the people who cooperated with him — the Nazi leaders all the way down to the local leadership — were hanged, shot, or jailed. A series of historic trials were held in the German city of Nuremberg, the place where Hitler and his Nazis got their start, thus the term “Judgement at Nuremberg.” Trump will be gone in less than three years and judgement day will begin.
Meanwhile, in reading about Hitler and his followers, I’m struck by how many top Nazis and top Trump MAGATS share the same basic social profile — that is, bsically a lifelong catastrophic fuckup who failed upward under conditions ripe for such people to ascend to positions for which they were farcically unqualified. This description fits people like Eichmann, Himmler, Streicher, Goebbels, and many other Nazis to a tee, with the very best example being, of course, Adolf Hitler himself.
On the MAGAT side the examples of lifelong catastrophic fuckups are plentiful, from Whiskey Pete Hegseth, Puppy Slayer Noem, Locker Room Patel, RFK Jr., and many others all the way up to Donald Trump himself, who spent decades managing to be a human disaster of astonishing proportions, despite inheriting hundreds of millions of dollars and everything that goes with such good fortune in our society.
In January 2029 we are going to need a lot of firing squad walls to stand these decadent and depraved monsters up against, going to need a lot of lumber for scaffolds and a lot of good, strong manila rope — all to exact justice — not “retribution,” not “weaponized justice,” but JUSTICE — and to restore THE RULE OF LAW.
We can leave it to the historians to spend endless hours and years trying to understand how it is that Nazis come to rule us.
Meanwhile, this is what happened to Hitler’s people.
