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wackyteen posted...

The Nazi is taking action, by enacting laws that restrict the rights of small outgroups.

The legislators and voters behind that aren't necessarily active in any underground neo-Nazi movement or attracted to Nazi ideology (although for sure, some voters probably are, and cheer those laws as a step in the right direction). Instead, in the main they sound more like nostalgic throwbacks to traditional, mainstream Republicanism from an era before Eisenhower. The unpleasant fact to be faced is that a lot more "ordinary" voters hold shocking views than you might think, and they don't see themselves as Nazis or posture in paramilitary gear; they just see themselves as quite ordinary, everyday Americans instead of as far-right revolutionaries fighting for a "foreign" ideology.

Rather than unhelpfully rubber-stamping every one of them as a secret agent consciously working to further the cause of the Fourth Reich, and screaming "wolf!" at every shadow, maybe fight the policies on the grounds that the "apple-pie" values, attitudes, opinions and beliefs that they profess to cherish are the toxic residue of a more ignorant, prejudiced, divided, and unhappy American past littered with its own mistakes, tragedies, and evils that should never be repeated.