""Stand up for America," Jacob Frey, the mayor of Minneapolis, implored on Saturday, after federal agents shot to death another one of his constituents. "Recognize that your children will ask you what side you were on. Your grandchildren will ask you what you did to act to prevent this from happening again-to make sure that the foundational elements of our democracy were rock solid. What did you do to protect your city? What did you do to protect your nation?""
"In 2025, I made a project of reading the Third Reich trilogy, by Richard J. Evans, a definitive history of Nazi Germany. Evans details the police state established by Adolf Hitler, noting that Nazi terror was not "levelled exclusively against small and despised minorities" but that the "threat of arrest, prosecution and incarceration in increasingly brutal and violent conditions loomed over everyone." He explains how the Nazi regime "intimidated Germans into acquiescence""
Federal agents shot to death a city resident, prompting urgent appeals to stand up for America and to safeguard democratic foundations. Masked men terrorized an entire city, operating with impunity while local authorities were outnumbered and beleaguered, and innocent people were dying. Historical patterns of state-enabled intimidation are invoked by comparison to Nazi Germany. Nazi terror targeted not only small minorities but created a pervasive threat of arrest, prosecution, and brutal incarceration that loomed over everyone. The Nazi regime intimidated citizens into acquiescence; fear and terror functioned as central political weapons.
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