It Is Happening Here.
You could watch Amazon's new series, Man in the High Castle, based on the Philip K. Dick novel about an alternate timeline where the Nazis won World War Two, or you could just read the news, where leading Republican presidential candidate and literal fascist Donald Trump continues to lie and lie with no apparent end in sight. This weekend he circulated Neo-nazi propaganda, which was very surprising to anyone who woke up yesterday from the coma they have been in since 1973. Way back in 1990, when Trump was seen as an incipient failure and a pompous blow-dried joke, Marie Brenner's Vanity Fair profile casually noted his Nazi sympathies: "'Donald is a believer in the big-lie theory,' his lawyer had told me. 'If you say something again and again, people will believe you.'" That's Joseph Goebbels's "big lie" theory, and in case it still wasn't clear enough:
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