They only copied the Nazis, see The Reichstag Fire, and Kristallnacht.
You’re exactly right.
Problem is too many people in this country simply don’t want to believe that something like a Nazi Germany could ever come to pass in this country.
There are people in this country that would willingly get in the cattle car and encourage others to get into the cattle car because they were given bread an jelly, and they wouldn’t be planning on doing anything bad to you or they wouldn’t give you bread and jelly.