Trump & Barr are testing the waters by deploying nameless, faceless paramilitary squads in US cities.

In the months before the 1933 German election, Brownshirts & SS displayed "terror, repression & propaganda across the land", and Nazi organizations "monitored" the vote process.
In Prussia 50,000 members of the SS, SA and Der Stahlhelm were ordered by acting Interior Minister Hermann Göring to act as "auxiliary police" and monitor the votes.
This would be the last contested election held in Germany before World War II. Two weeks after the election, Hitler was able to pass an Enabling Act on March 23 with the support of all non-socialist parties, which effectively gave Hitler dictatorial powers.
Within months, the Nazis banned all other parties and turned the Reichstag into a rubberstamp legislature comprising only Nazis and pro-Nazi guests.
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