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SA. Sturmabteilung. The FBI is the Gestapo. Get yo historical metaphors right.
Not yet. When they start eliminating all the brown shirts, AKA ICE then they will be the Gestapo. I wonder how many of them realize that they are scheduled to be eliminated in the plan.
Best thing that could happen at this point is an Operation Hummingbird type purge of ICE and the DHS. The party is nowhere near consolidated enough to make a power move like that, MAGA would eat itself alive.
ICE is the police force which directly reports to the Executive Branch, which is why it is Gestapo.
FBI would be whatever was left of the Wehrmacht when Hitler took power, perhaps the Feldgendarmerie.
The Wehrmacht was literally the army. So no, not the FBI.
The SA was a bunch of complete morons that attacked people and caused riots and got so out of hand that the government couldn't handle them anymore. The Gestapo was smart.
The Wehrmacht was the entire republic, my dude. It was the feds. And the Feldgendarmerie were its federal law enforcers.