Snag a 20% discount on your first month OR first year of Means TV with my link: Monthly: https://means.tv/orders/customer/_info?o=70845&d=SECONDTHOUGHT Annual: https://means.tv/checkout/new?o=23756)&d=SECONDTHOUGHT As an added thank you, all Second Thought patrons can get their first year 50% off! Your code is available at https://patreon.com/secondthought Have a topic idea? Send it to us here: https://forms.gle/gihjqi21cZe7ncWr5 Citations and Further Reading: Vanity Fair article https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/07/donald-ivana-trump-divorce-prenup-marie-brenner Propaganda https://youtu.be/B5RfZc89gUk?t=98 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trump-administration-posts-echo-rhetoric-linked-to-extremist-groups https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2009731611365941453 https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1948150126494482555 https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2006472108222853298 https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1950271979585425794 https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1955011982488228231 https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTdjJu6CQ4U https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2011476301060702329 https://x.com/TheSneerReview/status/2012550031132316010 https://x.com/USDOL/status/2014529048647438337 https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2006439129291304998 https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/this-insane-post-foreshadows-the Goebbels speech https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/goeb24.htm https://x.com/jimstewartson/status/1969925458092568778 Comparisons https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/22/trump-administration-nazi-problem https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/white-nationalist-song-ice-recruitment-posts/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Which/_Way/_Western/_Man%3F#%3A~%3Atext=White+supremacist%2C+claims%2Cpeople+and+Jews%2C https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/40057 https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/40057 https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/24/outrage-at-footage-of-people-singing-nazi-slogan-at-party-on-german-island#%3A~%3Atext=an+old+Nazi+slogan+“Germany+for+the+Germans+–+foreigners+out” https://x.com/TheSneerReview/status/2012550031132316010 https://zeteo.com/p/did-department-of-homeland-security-tweet-nazi-dog-whistle https://theintercept.com/2026/01/13/dhs-ice-white-nationalist-neo-nazi/ https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-brainless-propaganda-of-stephen-miller https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n10/daniel-trilling/is-this-fascism Nazis in ranks https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2026/01/26/congressman-white-supremacists-have-no-place-in-our-government https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2025-10-21-raskin-to-trump-wh-re-ingrassia-nomination.pdf https://www.wsj.com/tech/doge-staffer-resigns-over-racist-posts-d9f11a93 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/06/republican-senator-aide-nate-hochman Clips https://x.com/Suzierizzo1/status/2012057907303510329 https://youtu.be/HCfxeUBj7as?t=40 Fascism as failure https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323695290/_Fascism/_and/_social/_inequality https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/business/2022/07/brazil-became-poorer-during-bolsonaro-government.shtml#%3A~%3Atext=Data+on+the+average+income+of+Brazilians+also+show+this+impoverishment.+According+to+the+Brazilian+Institute+of+Geography+and+Statistics%2C+the+average+income+fell+from+BRL+2%2C823+at+the+beginning+of+2019+to+BRL+2%2C613+in+the+March+to+May+quarter+of+this+year https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n10/daniel-trilling/is-this-fascism https://inequality.org/article/trump-income-inequality/ https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/poverty-inequality-have-risen-in-the-modi-years-1159201.html https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1640193/as-duterte-stepped-down-more-filipinos-tighten-belts-to-make-ends-meet https://journals.openedition.org/rdctss/903#%3A~%3Atext=Jair+Bolsonaro+argued+that+« fewer+rights+are+better+than+no+jobs » https://fortune.com/2025/11/01/snap-payments-cutoff-food-pantries-usda-government-shutdown/ Imagery https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/style/gregory-bovino-ice-coat.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/kash-patel-meltdown-over-fbi-162419785.html?guccounter=1 https://www.yahoo.com/news/ice-barbie-kristi-noem-mocked-004230140.html Nazi Germany https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199566525.003.0006 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/sep/16/ian-kershaw-the-end-review Broken promises https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/17/trump-energy-bill-prices-increase Books https://www.versobooks.com/products/3147-disaster-nationalism https://archive.org/details/thirdreichpoliti0000welc https://archive.org/details/endhitlersgerman0000kers https://books.google.com/books/about/Popular/_Opinion/_in/_Totalitarian/_Regimes.html
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