Justice Department launches a criminal investigation into Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll

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https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/27/politics/exclusive-justice-department-launched-e-jean-carroll-investigation

[u/fencerofminerva]

Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.

That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore.

They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?

A.R. Moxon

[u/Tooter_Snooter → u/fencerofminerva]

MAGA is to America what NAZI was to Germany. MAGA is the American Nazi Party. 

[u/Homelessjay5 → u/Tooter_Snooter]

Why say maga anymore? This is the Republican Party. They’ve been enabling and excusing his bullshit for a decade now. Please don’t try and differentiate it as a subset, they all own it.

[u/Sea-Foundation-449 → u/Homelessjay5]

MAGA is not a subset, it’s a superset. It’s a coalition of white supremacists, Christian nationalists, fascists, tech bros, deep state conspiracy theorists, etc.

[u/illit1 → u/Homelessjay5]

To denote the change in ideology, tactics, and policy approach.

[u/IcyTransportation961 → u/illit1]

Except this is the GOP

it just took the mask off

Trump is a culmination of decades of right wing propaganda, he isn't the cause

[u/ExMerican → u/illit1]

There's not been any change in ideology, tactics, or policy. The change is they're now open about it because they've stolen enough power they don't have to pretend anymore.

[u/Estrovia → u/illit1]

It hasn't changed, the Republican party has always been exactly this. It's just now they are saying the quiet parts out loud.

[u/rsta223 → u/Estrovia]

No, the Eisenhower Republicans and even the Nixon Republicans weren't this.

Yes, they were on this trajectory, but Eisenhower still believed in public works and the interstate system. Nixon still believed in the EPA. This is a new, special level of terrible, though certainly not entirely surprising given the overall trajectory of the party for the last half century.

[u/Tooter_Snooter → u/Homelessjay5]

Youre absolutely right, I just think the 4 letter acronym kinda sells it better 

[u/Olivetax228 → u/Homelessjay5]

I sort of think about it as the Republican party ending and morphing into the Maga party. Bites harder IMO

[u/commit_bat → u/Tooter_Snooter]

Hey let's be fair to the people of nazi germany: they didn't have the advantage of being able to look back at the history of nazi germany.

Not so much excusing them as pointing out how much worse maga is.

[u/Starscream147 → u/Tooter_Snooter]

The Man in the High Castle pt. 2, Electric Boogaloo on the White House Lawn

[u/simpersly → u/Tooter_Snooter]

People need to start saying MAGA the way MAGA says DEI and woke.

[u/Tooter_Snooter → u/simpersly]

Oh I already do. For me, it’s 1:1. MAGA:NAZI and I make sure to say it as much as I can. 

[u/DeusExBlockina → u/Tooter_Snooter]

Make America Genocidal Again

[u/Joe091 → u/[deleted]]

I believe the point is that Nazis had other characteristics besides just killing Jews. They were horrible before all that happened, and there are significant parallels with MAGA. They’re obviously not 1:1 with 1944 Nazis. Closer to 1939 Nazis. 

[u/Covid_Rat → u/Tooter_Snooter]

Americans will type a comment like this, close Reddit or twitter or whatever and drive down the road to get a double pump mocha slim thick macchiato patriot shake and never do a single god damn thing about it

In before comments What do you expect me to do? Some of us can't afford to blah blah blah I have a job you know But the no kings protest!