Guess the misunderstanding (and since various people misunderstood it that's on me) is that I wasn't aiming my comment specifically at the individual trial, but I used this specific trial as an occasion to make a broad, vague, emotional comment.
That comment was aimed at the specter of a fractured society with sizeable, militant, aggressive, hostile and by no means powerless anti-democratic elements, and with no overarching grasp on the kind of fabric of reality that is needed for democratic infrastructure to survive.
And justice that is "blind on the right eye", which is where the allusion comes into it. Which the US system is, too, no fecking ifs and buts.
And I won't need to wait for a
successful Nazi coup to dare to make an allusion.. maybe saying "early 1920s vibes" would have been better though.
Yes