“for the good of society … transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely”
Trump banned trans people from serving in the military. More broadly, trans people routinely lose their jobs.
Trump has repeatedly called for socialists to be destroyed. For example:
"We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections...”
Trump has called for socialists to be deported:
“Today I’m announcing a new plan to protect the integrity of our immigration system. Federal law prohibits the entry of communists and totalitarians into the United States. But my question is, what are we going to do with the ones that are already here, that grew up here? I think we have to pass a new law for them.”
They're saying their plan out loud on TV and people still don't believe it. It's maddening. It's not that your Republican neighbor is going to bust down your door and string you up, it's much slower and subtler than that. Institutional subjugation is much easier to pass and for people to quietly ignore. Elimination from public life was literally part of the Nuremberg Laws! And Florida right now has a law on the books that on paper bans transgender people from being in public if they ever felt safe to enforce it.
Calling Trump Hitler gives Trump too much credit, but the political conditions of 1930's Germany and economic anger giving rise to a desire for national purity and scapegoating minorities is pretty dead on. And it's not like Germany is unique, we're really not much more advanced than ritual sacrifice of people taken by demons to bring about a good harvest, err economy. This has been a persistent bug in Human we keep hitting.
Would you mind sharing information about this Florida law which bans transgender people from appearing in public? I tried Googling for it, but only found one which restricted access to transgender surgery for minors.
I don't perceive this to be happening in any systemic way. I think (in fact, I know) that social media is really good at magnifying the extremes, and the extremes of the right are scary, mean, and evil. That doesn't remotely represent the majority of people in the country. Less than 28% of US adults voted for Trump this election, its a single-digit percentage of even those individuals who would even consider acting out the rhetoric, and let's be real: They're mostly in those very isolated parts of the country like the west or apalachia which does have internet but, sadly, not much else (least of all, good public education).
Roughly the same level of support that allowed the Nazis to rise to power. Even if it doesn’t end up happening in a systemic way - (a) there is no way to know that right now - powerful republican factions have clearly signaled they want to go in that direction; and (b) it won’t be any comfort to those targeted, because there is quite a bit of non-systemic discrimination inherent in another Trump term.
They want to run because the right is using violent language and saying they are going on a revenge tour. Why is that weird to you?