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YOHABLO

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8. I see the implications but we're not 1930s Germany. Trump doesn't have Brownshirts (SA)

Reply to Cattledog (Original post)

Fri Jul 19, 2019, 09:55 PM

Jul 2019

At least not yet. Of course there are pockets of unconnected white supremacist groups but they're not being used by the Republicans nor Trump to intimidate Jews, AfrAm's, LGBTQ, Immigrants, etc. The SA, or Brownshirts, rose to about 2 million in the 1930s, and of course were then purged by the Nazis (Night of the Long Knives) for political reasons.

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