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And from the Post's article, AOC and the freshman in congress are helping to bring racial hatred back to the U.S.

LTC (Join to see) - They do not have to. Trump has already done it.

Top Kick, the way the Democrats are acting, I believe that it is.
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SGT Joseph Cabra - I have yet to run into a bunch of hammer and sickle-wearing types, but I am aware that they exist. Looks like De Souza found about 20 0f them. However, tools like this will never assume power, because what they advocate for will destroy our way of life. Other threats to that have come up before, and the American people in their wisdom vote for what make sense to them. Dumb stuff like Obamacare only happens when they are completely opaque about what the law will do, and lie about it to the American people. I think the folks that trotted out the Green New Deal realize that America isn't buying what they are selling (LOL, nope), and will try to rebrand it in the future in order to get traction. Hard to overcome situations where your bill gets exactly zero votes.
Folks like AOC and Bernie can come into office only in places where they have unquestioned hegemony in the electorate. Anywhere that is remotely competitive, and they lose. Likewise conservative reactionaries. One of these cats gets nominated, and they will be ran off the field on a rail, George McGovern-like.

And one last thing, LTC (Join to see) these Nazi comparisons are tired and frankly hyperbole every time. I'm bored with it when the left goes there for everything. I am bored with it when the right goes to it (les often, but here we are). Of all the regimes in the 20th Century, only the National Socialists under Hitler, the Communist Soviet Union under Stalin, and the Communist People's Republic of China under Mao Zse Tung are in the conversation for the worst of the worst. I would put my money on Mao for the chief bad guy of those, but all are worthy of comparisons. Kim Il Sung in NK, Edi Imin in Uganda, and the Khmer Rouge were pretty terrible in their own rights, but much more limited in scope.
NOTHING that has happened in the United States even remotely approaches any of these regimes. Even the most extreme folks in the US, should they somehow come to power, have significant checks on their ability to execute a nefarious agenda, as the last two years demonstrates in spades (not saying Trump is a nefarious actor, just a civics observation of how checks and balances works).
The closest comparison you could reasonably make in US history is our treatment of Native Americans, which indeed has several sad and dastardly chapters in it. But the worst of that was well over a century ago, closer to two. At the end of the day, there a hell of lot more people free due to the light and martial might the USA brought to the fight than were ever oppressed by the evils of slavery and ethnic cleansing the Native Americans.

As I said, not the same. Not now, not in the past, and not in the future.