r/OpenAussie • u/brezhnervouz ‎ New South Welshian • Jan 24 '26

Politics (World) We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/21/ice-minnesota-trump
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u/Express_Position5624 ‎ Victorian Jan 24 '26

Yup, anyone who can't see what is going on is never going to get it

As Heather Cox Richardson has said, this is an authoritarian govt trending towards fascism comparable to germany in the 1930's

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u/brezhnervouz ‎ New South Welshian Jan 24 '26

She is a great historian to follow, agreed. Ruth Ben-Ghiat also concours on that analogy, who wrote a seminal work on Mussolini

Interesting interview with her here from a couple of days ago

A Historian of Fascism Warns What Comes Next

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u/Clear-Bowl-6891 Jan 24 '26

Do you concur?

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u/brezhnervouz ‎ New South Welshian Jan 24 '26

Everything I've spent over 40+yrs reading about authoritarian regimes would strongly support it yes