A few years ago I was lucky enough to meet old communists and socialists who experienced first hand how brownshirts in Munich shot at them, killed people. How they raped women on the street that were just trying to go home and that home was deemed to be communist. And yes. They shot back. It all seemed to be so far away. Now I know — it isn’t. It’s back. In the US and also here.

I would locate them beyond SA but not yet fully SS, though

misread brown shits and it still made perfect sense.

Well, we can always hope for a repeat ‘night of the long knives’

I can't disagree. "First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me"
hmd.org.uk/resource/first-they…

Unfortunately, too many in America, don’t read or understand history.