Trump attacked Venezuela, Hitler invaded Poland… An ICE officer murdered a citizen in broad daylight in Minneapolis. Gestapo agents also murdered civilians in the streets.

It would be unnecessary and even morbid to repeat to you the international and domestic atrocities committed by the current administration in the first week of 2026. It would also be unfair to state that it was only seven days of abuses and senselessness. For many, it has been a truly exhausting and even terrifying year.

Who today can deny the similarities between Adolf Hitler and President Donald Trump? Who would have the audacity to refute the clear similarities between his government and the Third Reich?

The defenders of this neo-fascist regime will probably do so, with their characteristic cynicism, but they will lack arguments. The government itself has been openly publishing Nazi propaganda for months on the official social media accounts of its main departments. Or are they going to deny that their little joke on the Department of Labor's account posting “One Homeland. One People. One Heritage” is exactly the same as “Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer,” the central slogan of the Nazi Party in Germany? It is also foolish to deny the human catastrophe that Adolf Hitler's regime represented, considering the deaths of more than 70 million people, both combatants and civilians, according to United Nations estimates. That ideology, which the Department of Labor (and other departments in conjunction with this administration) is now copying, is based on Aryan racial supremacy, which destroyed the moral and legal foundations of modern civilization. Fortunately, the United States has an advantage against Trump that Germany did not have against Hitler. When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, the vast majority of the German people enthusiastically supported Hitler. This was no longer just a matter of manipulated referendums, but a genuine emotional and nationalistic allegiance, fueled by years of propaganda and political victories.

Several historians use studies by the Sicherheitsdienst (the SS intelligence service, which monitored the “mood of the people”) to show that support for Hitler at that time stood between 85 and 90 percent, with a general feeling of pride and confidence in the Fuhrer. Furthermore, historical evidence does show that the streets of Berlin, Munich, and Hamburg were filled with crowds cheering the start of the war, convinced they were making Germany great again. Hitler had the vast majority of the German people in his pocket. But Trump? Today, the average of all polls, compiled by the conservative political news website and data aggregator RealClear Politics, places Donald Trump with a 43.8 percent approval rating and a 52.7 percent disapproval rating. It's striking that their measurements include Fox News, the propaganda arm of Trumpism, a channel that has abandoned journalism to serve as the president's echo chamber, applauding without nuance, distorting facts, repeating fallacies, and fabricating enemies to sustain the narrative of fear… Even Fox News gives Trump a 44 percent approval rating and a 56 percent disapproval rating. one hundred.

So all is not lost. We must insist that as a community we can definitely make a difference. In 2023, the Pew Research Center showed that there are more than 37 million people of Mexican origin in the United States, more than 65 million if we count all Latinos. The same institute states that more than 36 million Latinos were eligible to vote as of 2024.

Forgive my boldness with this question, but: Has the monster of fascism already awakened the sleeping giant, or are we going to continue resting on our laurels?

(*) J. Antonio Ruiz H. is a Mexican-American journalist who produces and hosts the program “Con Tono Ruiz” on YouTube. For several years he served as head of information for the news programs of Azteca America and as general director of News at Sin Censura TV.