As of the first of this month, citizens of Wisconsin maintain second amendment rights to bear arms in their statehouse. But they do not maintain first amendment rights to express themselves with cameras or protest signs. In the spirit of such monumental flaunting of law, let me just say fuck to Godwin’s Law. And with that: for all those who register astonishment at the news that the Nazis came to power through election and then proclaim with a certainty seeped in ignorance of their own country’s slave-holding past that it can’t happen here, allow me to declare unequivocally that, yes, it can happen here and this is precisely how it happens. And in commemoration of this very dark turn, I offer the following entertainment: