Thomas Duvernay
profduv.bsky.social
Thomas Duvernay
@profduv.bsky.social
Assoc prof, PhD, Korean studies, historian; Odawa tribal elder (LTBB); Korean archery...
So maybe we are not only in 1938. We may already be standing at the edge of 1939. The fuse is there, waiting to be lit. And when it is, it will not be an accident. It will be the moment tRump has been working toward all along.
August 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM
nd here is the part that should chill every one of us. What took the Nazis years to do, tRump has shoved into just seven months. If he could consolidate that much power this quickly, what do the next seven months look like? Do we even have a chance of reaching a free and fair 2026 midterm election?
August 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Red states are gerrymandering to lock in permanent majorities. The checks and balances that people put their hope in are either captured or helping him.
August 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Some still cling to the belief that the courts or Congress will stop him. That is not realistic. Republicans (now, effectively, the American Fascist Party) control Congress. tRump controls the Republicans. He controls the executive. With six justices, he controls the Supreme Court.
August 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM
sending in more troops, and red-state governors falling in line behind him.
August 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM
that was the rapid Nazi expansion into Denmark, Norway, Belgium, and France. Here it could mean tRump expanding his control into other cities like Chicago and New York, which he has already named, with tRump's other DUI hire, Hogsbreath,
August 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM
That is where we are now. The American version of 1939 could be a violent clash in D.C., maybe between civilians carrying long guns and the Guard, that becomes the excuse for sweeping new emergency powers. Once that happens, the 1940 stage comes into view. In Europe,
August 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM
handing him the Sudetenland, the regime was firmly in control and waiting for the spark to move further.
August 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM
By 1935 the Nuremberg Laws had redefined citizenship and stripped away rights. The remilitarization of the Rhineland in 1936 was a gamble that succeeded and showed that no one would stop him. By 1938, with the Anschluss in Austria and then the Munich Agreement
August 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM
This is exactly why I have said it looks like 1938 in the WWII timeline. In Germany, Hitler had already consolidated power by then. The Reichstag Fire of 1933 had been used to crush political opponents and justify the Enabling Act. The Night of the Long Knives in 1934 eliminated internal rivals.
August 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM
For years, many of us warned that tRump was aiming to become a dictator. We pointed to Project 2025 and to the way he was stacking the institutions to his side. We were called alarmists. We were not. We were seeing things clearly. What is unfolding in D.C. proves it.
August 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM
announced that federal prosecutors will no longer bring felony charges against people openly carrying rifles or shotguns in the city. That means we now have armed civilians and armed troops on the streets together. This is not about reducing crime. It's about preparing for something much larger.
August 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM