No one is going to start calling this Gleichshaltung, so stop trying to make it happen. Words can be flexible. The current situation approximates a coup, and so people will call it a coup. Honestly, splitting hairs over definitions while our government is being stripped for parts? This is part of the problem!
I mean, to be fair to them, Gleichshaltung is a good word for what's happening. I'm not opposed to discussing the analogues between current events in the US and Hitler's consolidation of power in Germany. But I find the insistence on "proper" terminology tiresome. I don't think it's the other commenter's fault in this case, so maybe I shouldn't be so snippy, but it's a really common tactic among bad-faith actors to "well, actually..." a discussion into a debate about semantics rather than a debate about the actual matters of real import. It's a learned defensive behavior on my part, but not right in this situation. What matters is that we see what is happening and can describe it in a way that we all understand, not that we use specific technical terminology.
Fair enough, I yield. I'm on your side, it is dire times, and we have more urgent things to do than discussing proper distinctions on an internet forum. Any action now is better than the perfect action later, so let's get out on the streets and protest, instead.
