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Not exactly.

Two books that are absolutely essential to understanding what's going on now and what can be done about it: On Tyranny and From Dictatorship to Democracy (edit: Freudian slip...). "On Tyranny" talks about a very specific progression of how fascism undoes the law. I'll let Snyder explain:

Most governments, most of the time, seek to monopolize violence. If only the
government can legitimately use force, and this use is constrained by law, then the
forms of politics that we take for granted become possible. It is impossible to carry
out democratic elections, try cases at court, design and enforce laws, or indeed
manage any of the other quiet business of government when agencies beyond the
state also have access to violence. For just this reason, people and parties who wish
to undermine democracy and the rule of law create and fund violent organizations
that involve themselves in politics. Such groups can take the form of a paramilitary
wing of a political party, the personal bodyguard of a particular politician—or
apparently spontaneous citizens’ initiatives, which usually turn out to have been
organized by a party or its leader.

Armed groups first degrade a political order, and then transform it. Violent
right-wing groups, such as the Iron Guard in interwar Romania or the Arrow Cross
in interwar Hungary, intimidated their rivals. Nazi storm troopers began as a
security detail clearing the halls of Hitler’s opponents during his rallies. As
paramilitaries known as the SA and the SS, they created a climate of fear that
helped the Nazi Party in the parliamentary elections of 1932 and 1933. In Austria
in 1938 it was the local SA that quickly took advantage of the absence of the usual
local authority to loot, beat, and humiliate Jews, thereby changing the rules of
politics and preparing the way for the Nazi takeover of the country. It was the SS
that ran the German concentration camps—lawless zones where ordinary rules did
not apply. During the Second World War, the SS extended the lawlessness it had
pioneered in the camps to whole European countries under German occupation.
The SS began as an organization outside the law, became an organization that
transcended the law, and ended up as an organization that undid the law.

For violence to transform not just the atmosphere but also the system, the
emotions of rallies and the ideology of exclusion have to be incorporated into the
training of armed guards. These first challenge the police and military, then
penetrate the police and military, and finally transform the police and military.

Trump is a lot weaker than a lot of these "strongmen." He doesn't really have a loyal following; the Nazis had thousands of people looking to roam the streets brawling with Communists. Trump has to pay ICE people to do the same, and they have to hide their faces and cosplay as cops and people get to get up and scream in their faces and nothing happens. And, so far, there are little pockets of resistance from local law enforcement to that final intermingling stage, which is pretty unusual for this kind of thing. Definitely having people screaming at them or rescuing their victims and then getting away with it, or getting arrested for "assault" and then the grand juries refusing to indict, is very unusual. On the other hand, nothing's really stopping it. No cops are actually arresting anyone from ICE, which means this all can continue and escalate.

I would say that Proud Boys roaming around and trying to play the part of the brownshirts would be a great thing, because it would drive the wedge which is slightly inserted between ICE and local law enforcement in a little deeper. Because when ICE and the police really do knit together into a single law enforcement body (which would necessarily be obedient to Trump and not to the law), brother, watch the fuck out.

Antifa is an idea

Proud boys are a group

Don't wait for permission.

Agreed. This isn't what I served to protect.

Texas is a shithole state with less freedoms than I have as a Californian.

The women in my life have rights that Texan women don't.

I can walk down the street right now and buy weed from the weed store. Texans can't.

Texans are a bunch of cucks that let their legislators shit on them.

Young Conservative groups at colleges seem to revolve around thinking of ways to get attention and "lolz"

Some of those that work forces

Are the same that burn crosses

And angry mobs should be sent to hunt swat teams

Send us your violent, your delusional, your hate filled...

Don't have any tigers, best I can do is furries.

"Storm Troopers" sounds a little ominous don't you think?

Maybe something innocuous, like "Protection Squadron"

Remember when the MAGA crowd was crying about personal freedoms and wearing yellow stars?

Oh how the turn tables

Same. Pretty sure every proud boy has already joined.