
"It doesn’t begin with death camps. It begins with myths, with lies, with silence."
This video was created as a protest tool — to show how authoritarianism grows not through sudden collapse, but through carefully engineered fear, distraction, and contempt for the weak.
🟥 MAGA isn’t just a political movement.
🟥 It’s a revival of a playbook we’ve seen before — and it begins again now.
🎥 I’ve made a mobile-optimized slideshow to compare the rise of Nazism in 1930s Germany with the political direction of the USA under Trump, Musk, and their ideological architects.
The parallels are not symbolic. They are strategic.
🎬 Watch the Video
🧠 Use the Slides – Remix, Share, Add Your Voice
You’ll find the full content guide below, slide by slide, ready to be reused as quotes, IG posts, TikToks, or threads.
This is a collaborative resistance project. Credit or remix freely — just keep the message intact.
🔻 The Slide Titles & Key Messages
Slide 1: From Weimar to Washington: The Blueprint Rebooted
Slide 2: The Setup – Germany’s fall, America’s unraveling
Slide 3: Cult of the Leader – Trump as Messiah of the American Myth
Slide 3A: Worship Strength, Scorn Weakness – The winner/loser worldview
Slide 4: The Big Lie – “The Steal” = “The Stab in the Back”
Slide 5: Manufactured Crisis – Tesla fires and Reichstag echoes
Slide 6: Scapegoats – Migrants, minorities, progressives
Slide 7: Cultural Suppression – Book bans = burned ideas
Slide 8: Territorial Fantasies – MAGA lebensraum
Slide 9: Militias – Proud Boys ≠ Brownshirts, but close
Slide 10: Capture of Capital – Billionaires fund the regime
Slide 11: Media Control – From Goebbels to Musk
Slide 12: Judiciary Under Siege – Courts Politicized
Slide 13: Retaliation Against Dissent – Cut funding, silence protest
Slide 14: Blood & Soil – White Christian nationalism reborn
Slide 15: War Economy – Justified by Manufactured Chaos
Slide 16: Fascist Playbook 2.0 – Nine rules of democratic decay
Slide 17: Final Call – Protest. Share. Speak up. April 5.
Slide 18: Emotional Blueprint – Fear or Care? Power or trust?
🗓 Join Us April 5 — Online & In The Streets
This protest is global. What happens in the U.S. will affect all of us — in Norway, in France, in Gaza, in your feed.
👉 April 5: Protest. Share. Speak up. Unite.
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SEO Title: MAGA vs Weimar: The Blueprint Rebooted — Protest Video Essay by Tjook
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