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A recurring problem with joining extremist organizations is that eventually it will outpace your personal extremist views and behaviors ... and then you will be a victim of it.
"First they came for the ..." is about people that were Nazis but not Nazi enough ... and in a Nazi-like society no one except Trump/Hitler will ever be Nazi enough to not be culled until the leaders cull themselves.
And remember that when they cull the bottom group that creates a new bottom group by definition. and eventually that new bottom group is gonna include you.
and they not gonna stop culling because of you
human centipede meet human ant mill
ACAB
ICE is the modern Brownshirts. Once they became too powerful, they were slaughtered.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives
OTOH, we don't have anything like the SS to replace them with. Yet.
Martin Niemöller (the author) has an interesting wikipedia page. It behooves everyone to read it.