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You speak as if half Americans did not actually vote for Trump. They would need to fight much more than just Trump himself. Trump perfectly represents what America has always been.
Closer to a third.
Another full third couldn't be bothered to get off their asses and vote at all.
Um... half of Americans did not actually vote for Trump. That's how halves work. The US isn't one person.
If half the US is lining up to suck Trump's micropenis, and the other half want his head on a pike, which half do you think is my target audience here? The us has a Nazi problem, like fucking bad, but it also has people who aren't Nazis, and Trump absolutely does not represent those people. What they need to be is spurred into action - lumping them in with the Nazis will only serve the Nazis.
The question is if the 2024 election was rigged, or if Trump actually represents the American people.
You can make an argument for some rigging but in the end he did get a lot of organic support. And it is not like the US empire was not doing war crimes and imperialism before Trump.
Why is that the question? Adolf Hitler had a lot of organic support, but that didn't make him any less of an enemy to humanity, to include the Germans who opposed him, and regardless of whether or not those Germans were a minority opinion.
Trump is using the same tactics to manipulate the same kinds of idiots, and while those MAGA (Nazis) are a very real issue in their own right, that doesn't make Trump any less of an issue that also needs to be addressed.
Even if 90% of Americans (Germans) voted for him of their own volition, that still leaves you with 10% of the US population as potential allies.
Hitler is an amazing example. He was a member of the NSDAP party which he represented. He was not a sole person who changed the course of all of history. If Hitler did not exist, history would have likely not changed that much. There were many other prominent members in NSDAP like Adolf Eichmann and Heimlich Himmler who were extreme racial supremacists.
...and? That didn't make Hitler any less of an enemy to Germany or the rest of humanity, nor does the horde of neonazis lined up behind Trump make him any less of an enemy to the US or the rest of humanity.
I guess I'm not really understanding your goal here. Mine is to spur some much needed action against Trump, especially from within the US. You're insistent on refuting that, but you also seem pretty clearly anti-Trump, so why the contradiction? Or if that's not what you're getting at, what is?