How this compares to Hitler

Comparative Speed: Hitler vs. Trump (2024–2025)

Hitler’s consolidation of power (1932–1934):

1. July 1932: Nazis win largest share in Reichstag but don’t seize power yet
2. January 30, 1933: Hitler appointed Chancellor (not elected)
3. February 27, 1933: Reichstag Fire; civil liberties suspended next day
4. March 1933: Enabling Act passed—Hitler gets full legislative power
5. June–July 1933: All other political parties outlawed
6. June 30, 1934: Night of the Long Knives—internal purges and consolidation
7. August 2, 1934: Hitler declares himself Führer; total power achieved

Time from appointment to full autocracy:

~18 months

Trump’s second-term descent (2025):

1. January 2025: Trump sworn in, begins purges and pardons
2. February–March:
   • Begins defying courts
   • Expands border militarization
   • Censors science, targets media
   • Begins extraterritorial detention of asylum seekers
3. April:
   • Mass asylum denial without hearings
   • Supreme Court rulings ignored
   • Calls to revoke media licenses
   • Deportation of citizens threatened
   • Foreign blacksites used for indefinite detention
   • FEMA relief denied to blue states
   • DOJ and NIH under functional authoritarian control

Time from inauguration to functional collapse of checks and balances:

~3 months

Conclusion: Yes—it’s faster. Much faster.

Not because Trump is smarter than Hitler.
But because:

• He inherited a stronger surveillance and militarized infrastructure
• He operates in a media environment that rewards chaos over order
• He is not alone—this is part of a larger, transnational authoritarian trend
• And he has no real opposition party with the kind of unified response Germany once saw (before suppression)