Thread by @Steve_Sailer

Few have noticed, but the current crackdown on civil liberties following the attack on the Capitol is strikingly analogous in some ways to the crackdown on civil liberties that followed the 1933 attack on the Reichstag in Berlin.

Hitler was not one to let a crisis go to waste, so he moved rapidly after the Reichstag fire to crush political opposition.

Two days later, the Reichstag Fire Decree "suspended ... habeas corpus, ... secrecy of the post and telephone, freedom of expression and of the press, the right to public assembly, and the right of free association, as well as the protection of property and the home."

The Reichstag fire was so convenient for Hitler in letting him accelerate his agenda that many assumed the fire was set by the Nazis themselves in a false flag attack. But, the weight of evidence seems to point to a mentally defective Dutch leftist firebug acting as a lone wolf.

But, the origin of the Reichstag fire remains open to reasonable debate.

My point, however, is that the _response_ to the attack on national capitol was to use the hysteria to crush civil liberties, which seems rather analogous to 2021.

The Reichstag fire is often assumed to have been a false flag attack, but I would bet against it. On the other hand, Hitler did employ a false flag attack on Germany to justify invading Poland on 9/1/1939, but it was a PR flop.

My history of false flags:
takimag.com/article/waving…

One reason so few have noticed the parallels between the crackdown on freedom of speech after the the attack on the German capitol in 1933 and the current crackdown on freedom of speech is because people get distracted by the fascinating but fruitless false flag question.

Another reason the Reichstag Fire response analogy doesn't come to mind for most people is because Hitler analogies are notoriously unproductive. But this appears to be a rare case where a Hitler analogy could be eye-opening and useful.