Don't do this, this was not the Enabling Act, holy fucking shit. It's important---for your mental health, for next steps, for just accurately assessing risks---that we describe this accurately, and the formal end of rule of law this is not
Also, if you think this is Nazi Germany, fucking delete your account---not in some pithy, that's embarrassing way, but because all of you post stuff that the Gestapo would be absolutely interested in following up on
The mistake I've seen several people make is conflating immunity with the idea that everyone must now obey the President, even when they didn't before.
Historian Timothy Snyder, expert in the rise of authoritarianism, has a quote for moments like these. "History does not repeat, but it does instruct." We can see what the possibilities are and act accordingly.
Live long enough and you’ll see the world misuse history form all sides and in all kinds of dispiriting ways. (When I was younger, and when I was older appeasement was the cri de coeur from RW for everything).
