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Citations and Further Reading:
Vanity Fair article
https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/07/donald-ivana-trump-divorce-prenup-marie-brenner
Propaganda
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trump-administration-posts-echo-rhetoric-linked-to-extremist-groups
https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2009731611365941453?s=20
https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1948150126494482555?s=20
https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2006472108222853298?s=20
https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1950271979585425794?s=20
https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1955011982488228231?s=20
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTdjJu6CQ4U
https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2011476301060702329?s=20
https://x.com/TheSneerReview/status/2012550031132316010?s=20
https://x.com/USDOL/status/2014529048647438337?s=20
https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2006439129291304998?s=20
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/this-insane-post-foreshadows-the
Goebbels speech
https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/goeb24.htm
https://x.com/jimstewartson/status/1969925458092568778?s=20
Comparisons
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/22/trump-administration-nazi-problem
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/white-nationalist-song-ice-recruitment-posts/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Which_Way_Western_Man%3F#:~:text=White%20supremacist%2C%20claims,people%20and%20Jews%2C
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/40057
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/40057
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/24/outrage-at-footage-of-people-singing-nazi-slogan-at-party-on-german-island#:~:text=an%20old%20Nazi%20slogan%20%E2%80%9CGermany%20for%20the%20Germans%20%E2%80%93%20foreigners%20out%E2%80%9D
https://x.com/TheSneerReview/status/2012550031132316010?s=20
https://zeteo.com/p/did-department-of-homeland-security-tweet-nazi-dog-whistle
DHS Used Neo-Nazi Anthem for Recruitment After Fatal Minneapolis ICE Shooting
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-brainless-propaganda-of-stephen-miller
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n10/daniel-trilling/is-this-fascism
Nazis in ranks
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2026/01/26/congressman-white-supremacists-have-no-place-in-our-government
https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2025-10-21-raskin-to-trump-wh-re-ingrassia-nomination.pdf
https://www.wsj.com/tech/doge-staffer-resigns-over-racist-posts-d9f11a93
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/06/republican-senator-aide-nate-hochman
Clips
https://x.com/Suzierizzo1/status/2012057907303510329?s=20
Fascism as failure
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323695290_Fascism_and_social_inequality
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/business/2022/07/brazil-became-poorer-during-bolsonaro-government.shtml#:~:text=Data%20on%20the%20average%20income%20of%20Brazilians%20also%20show%20this%20impoverishment.%20According%20to%20the%20Brazilian%20Institute%20of%20Geography%20and%20Statistics%2C%20the%20average%20income%20fell%20from%20BRL%202%2C823%20at%20the%20beginning%20of%202019%20to%20BRL%202%2C613%20in%20the%20March%20to%20May%20quarter%20of%20this%20year
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n10/daniel-trilling/is-this-fascism
https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/poverty-inequality-have-risen-in-the-modi-years-1159201.html
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1640193/as-duterte-stepped-down-more-filipinos-tighten-belts-to-make-ends-meet
https://journals.openedition.org/rdctss/903#:~:text=Jair%20Bolsonaro%20argued%20that%20%C2%AB%C2%A0fewer%20rights%20are%20better%20than%20no%20jobs%C2%A0%C2%BB
https://fortune.com/2025/11/01/snap-payments-cutoff-food-pantries-usda-government-shutdown/
Imagery
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/style/gregory-bovino-ice-coat.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/kash-patel-meltdown-over-fbi-162419785.html?guccounter=1
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ice-barbie-kristi-noem-mocked-004230140.html
Nazi Germany
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199566525.003.0006
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/sep/16/ian-kershaw-the-end-review
Broken promises
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/17/trump-energy-bill-prices-increase
Books
Disaster Nationalism
https://archive.org/details/thirdreichpoliti0000welc
https://archive.org/details/endhitlersgerman0000kers
https://books.google.com/books/about/Popular_Opinion_in_Totalitarian_Regimes.html
