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MAGA isn't as competent as Nazi Germany though. That was a enonomically devestated country that voted in a dictator to fix things. Nazis were efficient; that was literally the point.
This is more like the fall of Rome or the Soviet Union: a country at the apex of power and efficacy, finally buckling under the weight of its decedance and indulgences, and drinking too much of its own koolaid.
My hope is that MAGA turns into a cold bucket of water for the country. But more realistically, this seems to be the start of a sad corpo state that's going to fall behind the rest of the world.
No, they weren't particularly efficient. In many cases they were bumbling idiots that got really, really lucky - just like the current US administration.
Yeah there were several make or break moments for the Nazis that could have easily halted the whole thing but they just kept being lucky.
East Germany or the Soviet Union collapse makes the better comparison. Similar mass delusions among the public that all the debt, wars and breakdown in society is normal or will get better on it's own. Loss of the rule of law and truth more broadly. Like after the Soviet collapse, you have oligarchs coming in to take over parts of the system and privatize them. This effect creates the authoritarian system that lead to Putin and those around him. The U.S. has its Gorbachev. Even in Soviet society they had a concept called Vranyo, which translated to the fact that the population largely knew the Government was always lying and corrupt, and the Govt knew the population knew they were all lying and corrupt, and anyone who tried to Plato's Cave it was always shut down across the board from both sides. The mass delusions lasted until the collapse. And even after for many.
Ugh, that is very compelling.
Add in a bit more cyberpunk, with how the country uses tech these days.
Also, the US is quite wealthy and developed compared to the old Soviet Union, a confounding factor. That's kinda why I was thinking of Rome.