The Pro-Riot Left Is Following the Nazi Playbook for Seizing Power, by John Zmirak

By John Zmirak, The Stream, June 18, 2025

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.

This time in our country’s history is frightening, baffling, and tempting. We’re frightened by the sight of native-born radicals assembling pallets of bricks for illegal aliens to hurl at police. We’re baffled by police chiefs, mayors, and governors offering law enforcement personnel as sacrificial lambs. And we’re tempted to stick our heads in the sand, falsely blame President Donald Trump, and back down on our steely resolve to repatriate an army of more than 10 million invaders that Democrats and their pet judges wish to vote in our elections.

I say tempted, because it’s a sin to betray your country, even for the noble goal of seeming moderate, winsome, and “Christian.”

Permit me, as an obsessive history nerd, to try to assuage your fear, dispel your bafflement, and help you resist the Enemy’s temptation. Drawing on decades of study, which included researching and writing multiple books on political extremism, I will explain what’s happening in America and how it happened before. …

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