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mkempe
I recommend "The Ominous Parallels" [1] for a detailed examination of the philosophical and historical causes of Nazi Germany, and how these causes have echoes resonating in the US today.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Ominous-Parallels-End-Freedom-America...

(the now-flagged book review was https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/books/review/benjamin-car...)

dominotw
Is it a book version of Goodwin's law?
mkempe
Your anti-intellectualism fits with the times.
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captain_perl
The short answer is, "the same way that Trump did."

To learn more, I recommend reading the excellent post link.

emmelaich
Let us know the equivalent of the Beer Hall Putsch or the Reichstag Fire. And Trump did win the election.
pdfernhout
The 1953 short-story "Mr. Costello, Hero" by Theodore Sturgeon provides a fictional example of someone using the fear of difference to gain control of other people (although in response to McCarthyism, a brave thing for an author to write at the time).