I saw this on Facebook. Alonso Gurmendi appears to be a scholar of international law.

At any rate, it does seem somewhat off, in my humble opinion, to think of the Nazi regime as the "logical end-result of radical Westernism." Nor, for that matter, was the Nazi regime a "quintessentially German perversion of Western civilization." Rather, Hitler's regime was an exercise in nostalgia. It appeared to be (as recent Hitler biographer Volker Ullrich pointed out) "Stygian" (basically, hellish) because Hitler's plans for global conquest were accomplished in the mid-20th century, and because they involved the slaughter of very large populations of human beings. Hitler's imperialism, however, was an imperialism which stood on the shoulders of:

1) the genocides of native peoples in the conquest of the Americas by settlers of European origin

2) imperialist genocides of Africa and Asia

3) genocides of the end-Ottoman Empire period, of the Armenians and Greeks

For instance. Like with Hitler, moreover, Trump imperialism also appears as an exercise in nostalgia. The problem with such exercises in nostalgia, however, is that historians find it increasingly difficult in this era to make genocide seem polite. We're still supposed to be civilized, or something like that.

Nonetheless you do see these Trump-Hitler comparisons, at least on the level of theory.

The Trump team is clearly borrowing from the Hitler playbook. Greenland is lebensraum for Trump, as was Canada, and Cuba is lebensraum for Marco Rubio.

Meanwhile, the Onion leans in, with more truth than they know, about the head of ICE:

Or here is a fun parallel:

But ultimately it boils down to:

And then you have Benjamin Mileikowski, spiritual leader of the US political class, who runs the scene from Israel, land of the self-proclaimed "We represent all Ashkenazi", and everyone else can go live on a sandhill. The big differences between Zionism and the Nazis' plan to resettle the world's Yiddish-speakers in Madagascar are that with Zionism the Zionists are in charge, and it's a settler-colonial project rather than being an attempt to fulfill a promise made in Mein Kampf. Otherwise, we might assume, genocide is kewl and bitchen, racism is de rigueur, and the ethic of violence must be taught to all of the allies.

As Cornelius Castoriadis pointed out, we are in a retreat from autonomy characterized by the "complete atrophy of political imagination." In this regard, the "logical end-result of radical Westernism" happened in 1973, when the faith-based dollar was established by default, when the Trilateral Commission was establlished, when Salvador Allende killed himself and Victor Jara was publicly executed and the neoliberals of the Chicago School took over in Chile. Or it happened in 1979 and 1980 with the triumphs of, respectively, Thatcher and Reagan. In this version, the logical end-results of radical Westernism were neoliberalism and neoconservatism, and if we appear today to be suffering unduly from these trends, it is because that which has been visited upon other countries is now being visited upon us, and because the downward slide that has always been going on is now accelerating dramatically.

Let us also recall the great regressions of the turn of the millennium, also byproductts of this logical end-result of radical Westernism, with the No Child Left Behind Act and Proposition 227 in California and the USA PATRIOT Act and the war against Iraq and, eventually, the crushing of Occupy. In such an era as ours, all sides point, nostalgically, to some bygone era in which the human race had not yet eaten from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, or some such updated version thereof. Trump looks wistfully at the age of William McKinley, the nice liberals with big egos wistfully invoke the New Deal, and others look to other past eras like classical Greeks pining for an imagined Golden Age after having recited a bit of Hesiod. The primary political value in our declining years, well, whatever it was, it was wasted, and so everyone is to buy into some well-financed misrepresentation of history while, as George Carlin so clearly pointed out, our geologic age is coming to an end.

But, contra Carlin, there are some clear and obvious things to do. The first of these things is: take responsibility for your politics. We've had half a century, now, of some rather explicit shirking of political responsibility, and the bill is already way past due. Make sure that what you do is reflective of what you think, and not of someone else's thought.

Secondly, use your human imaginations well and thoroughly, in all spheres of activity. Doing so will make you feel as if you are not wasting your time protecting some illusion of security which you once thought you had.

Lastly, actually resist. Don't just pretend.

There will be naysayers against you should you take my advice here. "But but but (threatens you with stuff that has already happened)." Ignore them.