Trump has a very long history of using this kind of thing to say what the campaign is thinking about doing.

If you want to stop that kind of fascist outcome, about the only real option is to make sure Biden gets reelected and has a Democratic congress to help him.

That means three things:

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    “Reich” doesn’t mean “Nazi”.

    The “Second Reich” referred to the German Empire. After WWI, “The Weimar Republic,[b] officially known as the German Reich,[c] was a historical period of Germany from 9 November 1918 to 23 March 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclaimed itself, as the German Republic.”

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      No American (except German History majors, I suppose) hearing the word “Reich” thinks of anything except the third one.

      This is like the white dude rolling into a party with swastikas on their coat and then claiming it has other cultural meaning. So what? You and we all know that the reason the reference was brought out is to make you think of Nazis.