“Imagine you’re watching a movie about Germany in 1940. In it, an unarmed civilian woman is sitting in a car surrounded by masked, armed agents of the state. They menace her, circling the car and shouting. … As one of the agents grabs at her door handle, she tries to drive away. Another of them shoots her three times in the head before remarking, ‘Fucking bitch.’”

“You would understand instantly who the bad guy was. You would not say, ‘The woman should have complied with the orders from the Ordnungspolizei. She got what was coming to her.’”

Jonathan V. Last on American fascism.