Probably not because there is no real domestic marxist threat. The Nazis were so concerned about actual marxists that they adopted socialism in their name to dissuade local proleteriat from the alternative.
They may, however, do a Reichstag Fire to blame China.
No. There is nothing as dynamic or independent going on in the US as in the Weimar Republic. In the Weimar Republic there were actual organized factions taking actions against one another using various levera of power. SPD, KPD, Freikorps, monarchists, liberals, Nazis, etc were literally fighting in the streets, taking over cities, protecting or attacking marginalized groups.
In the US, it is important to understand that it is already essentially a Nazi country, it is just hegemonically so and presents itself as liberal. The Nazis themselves wete inspired by the US, its genocides, its racial segregation and oppression, its ethnonationalism. In policy it was more Nazi than the Nazis. The distinguishing feature of Nazis was that they wanted to claw back power for Germany using similar strategies under somewhat different conditions. In a more crowded space, imperially, with surrounding countries already posed for large scale war and a timeline of years and not decades or centuries.
Trump is just the “mask off” moment of American liberalism. His policies are not actually particularly different, they just lack liberal veneers. Biden did much more mass deportation, he just had people in uniform do it and crossed his Ts and dotted his Is legally. The genocide of Gaza was laundered primarily by the Biden admin. The war on Ukraine was stoked by decades of liberal policy and broken agreements to push push Russia into a corner rather than allow them regional influence. They wanted war and they got it. The US has been mass killing civilians and invading other countries for over a century and has always rationalized it through nationalism and racism. The US killed over a million in Iraw alone since 2003 and yet you are meant to care far more about a smaller number of dead in Ukraine - because they are white and becauae they are against the US’ designated enemy. The US maintains global white supremacy via its military, but also through finance. Far more die from US-based capitalism than from any war. Deprivation the world over is a product of imperialism, of the various evolutions of colonialism. You know the articles about USAID funding cuts leading to deaths? In a void this is peddled to you as the virtue of USAID, but its actual function is to threaten countries with that starvation. The US creates dependencies, not food secure nations, and it targets the non-white global south to do it. The US marks such countries for death when they pursue food sovereignty. Nothing puts a target on your back like land reform.
So anyways, the US is already a well-oiled Nazi machine. It has a massive state apparatus by which to already do anything a Nazi could ever want. There is no substantial left formation to oppose it, just ineffectual collaborationist liberals. There is no need for a Freikorps or similar. People call ICE the Freikorps, but they are not. ICE are cops. They are fully integrated agenta of the state. They do not need to be purged to do Nazi things or consolidate power, they are already beholden to it. No Reichstag Fire is needed, Trump can just say “fentanyl emergency” and do whatever he wants because Congress already consents. This has already been the case previously, they just applied a liberal veneer. The War on Terror was a series of largely undeclared wars executed by the executive based on a combination of Congressional blank check (which Trump is using, this is why he calls everyone he targets terrorist) and emergency powers.
Nazis have been here.
The modern equivalent of the friekorps will be understood post-ukraine war.
In the sense thst they were basically just mercenaries, the Freikorps has been maintained by the US for ages in the form of groups like Blackwater (now Constellis). But there is no local left to oppress militarily, there is no crisis requiring mercenaries domestically. The US can simply use cops for almost everything. The cops themselves receive increasingly militarized training to use on a civilian population, treating members of the pu lic like an enemy soldier ready to kill them at any moment (while also feeling superior to them). Notably, the major training operations for cops are IDF associated and mercenary groups like Blackrock. There is definitely a UA connection there via mercenaries.
Anyways I just want to emphasize that the domestic violent force we face us cops and there are far too few of us in thr first place for there to be organized resistance in the near future to prompt a correlary escalation. It will be more things like the George Floyd protests where those involved are mostly random liberals doing ineffectual disobedience and getting disabled or killed by cops in response.
No, I don’t think that’s necessary or even currently feasible
Long Knives: no, as we have seen since trump 1, there is no one else which is able to mobilize maga the same as trump, no inner-party split or second leader. desantis was making a play for it but ofc fell apart
Not to say trump won’t go after anyone deemed a threat, he is definitely petty enough to do so, but it won’t be as drastic
As for reichstag I am not sure, on one hand the Dems aren’t really opposing him so there’s no reason to, on the other hand they aren’t opposing him, so he might actually go for it. Heritage foundation would be happy, but it would probably upset business interests (assuming stock market goes down)
He is actually actively dismantling desantises power base right now. He has put his own candidate for governor of florida up and is trying to push out desantises candidate (his wife). Theyre throwing tons of money at it and i only expect it to intensify.
In case anyone wants to look it up Trumps guy for governor is Byron Donalds, Desantises is his wife Casey Desantis. Desantis is fucked imo. His career is over cuz he pissed Trump off, and Trump loves to hold a grudge.
