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This will likely embolden more far-right people to get back into the brownshirt business.

This brownshirt impulse has always been a part of Trumpism, as we saw with the rise of the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and other paramilitary gangs during the first Trump administration.

But the most famous Nazi martyr, the Ashli Babbit of his day if you will, was a young anti-communist brownshirt by the name of Horst Wessel who was a known violent brawler in the pitched street battles between left and right during those days.

The former wife of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes detailed how her ex-husband became a "brownshirt for Trump" in a new interview with The Daily Beast.

But that hasn’t stopped a certain breed of heedless politician and sensation-hungry activist from blithely throwing out Nazi analogies and words like brownshirt to defend former President Trump’s misappropriation of highly classified documents, or to vilify public health workers trying to stem a raging pandemic that has killed more than 6 million people.