The Nazis were NOT “a tiny minority of psychopaths who then terrorized everyone else into following along”. Sure, when they started out they were a small fringe group no one took seriously, led by certifiable nutjobs. But within short order they recruited millions of disgruntled vets, workers and nationalists by appealing to their anger and shame over losing WWI and being out of work and unable to provide for their families, convincing them that it wasn’t their fault but rather that of outsiders and traitors, and promising the restoration of all that was lost and revenge for all that was done to them. They were never close to a majority. They were just the biggest minority used terror, violence and lies to defeat their opponents, exploiting their inability to put aside their differences and put up a united front.
Sound familiar. I get and agree with your overall thesis, but you get the details wrong and they might be critical to our situation, because unlike the Germans of the 20’s and 30’s, there is no massive shame, defeat or loss that begins to match theirs, we’re far more diverse, our history and practice of democracy is much older, we’re far less conformist and compliant, and there’s far less division among the non-Trump factions of our political system. Our main weakness is states with too much power, the odious and anachronistic senate, and gerrymandering, structural forms of anti-democracy.