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It’s Not a Conspiracy — It’s a Pattern
And it’s playing out in plain sight
I’m not saying we’re in 1939 Germany. I’m not saying there’s a plan to start rounding people up tomorrow. But I am saying this: If history has taught us anything, it’s that authoritarianism doesn’t announce itself with a theme song and a grand finale. It creeps in through policy. It speaks in the language of order, purity, and protection. It starts with dehumanization — the burden, the drain, the disease — and ends with people cheering for cruelty because someone told them it was patriotic.
I’m not a conspiracy theorist. But if what’s happening now feels disturbingly familiar, maybe it’s not paranoia. Maybe it’s pattern recognition.
Because what do you call it when the Secretary of Health and Human Services , and the President of the United States ” while and ”?
What do you call it when defying courts becomes normal, when enemies lists are promised, and military crackdowns on civilians are cheered?
You don’t have to shout “” to see that we are in dangerous territory. And you don’t have to compare Trump to Hitler to ask: Why does this feel so much like the start of a history…
