It’s a reasonable criticism. Just remember that the enemy of your enemy isn’t your friend, they’re your ally.

Time to see whether our elected representatives here have any spine …

In the same speech, he warned: “You gotta win the midterms. Because if we don’t win the midterms, they’ll find a reason to impeach me. I’ll get impeached.”

Is he campaigning for the Democrats now?

They at least used to be …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party

I am souring on mainstream, respected news outlets

What do you suppose their job is?

Historically, angry Marxist-Leninists with guns have been very useful allies in dealing with NAZIs! But history suggests that things didn’t work out too well afterwards, for those ruled by the angry Marxist-Leninists with guns …

Oh sure, there are competent individuals in most any regime. Wernher von Braun, Hanna Reitsch and Otto Skorzeny spring to mind.

What I meant was though that fascist regimes as a whole do not govern competently, for a variety of reasons, including promotion for loyalty. I’d argue though that the main reason is philosophical: their disdain for intellectualism and reason.

The original fascists weren’t competent either. That’s a myth.

Slavers weren’t consistently anti-immigration. They were just opposed to free and open immigration.

You’d want a stronger girder than they used.

Teach children real history, civics, and philosophy, from a young age. Also how to shoot.

Ohhhhhhh damn. Have I been wrongly hating on tape capguns for 40-odd years?

The experience I had was that the hammer wasn’t consistently firing the caps. Perhaps I just had a couple of bad guns? Either way, nothing like those reliability issues with ring caps.

I know what they are, spent pocket money on them, and loathe them. Ring caps are far more reliable (albeit more expensive; always a topic of debate when said pocket money was $3 / month).

It didn’t happen in Germany or Japan even after they were firebombed and / or nuked.

People really don’t like holding power - even the formerly poweful - to account; and people in power generally don’t like it either (unless it suits them).

I suspect it’s partly because doing so would lead to the obvious question: who gave then the power in the first place?