Honestly the correlations to the rise of the 3rd Reich are more concerning than any comparison to the rise of a fictional character/events from arguably some of the worst written Star Wars movies in existence.
Taibbi is a nominal Democrat, but he's honest - guess you have to subscribe to see all of it.
"Biden’s handlers had the otherwise inspiring setting of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall bathed in so much blood-red light, he looked like an opening act for Queensrÿche or Rammstein. Trying to create a setting for judgment and warning, they overshot the staging and made the white-haired ex-Senator look like a vampire sat up from a crypt."
"But Biden needs an enemy. And if the Democrats are able to generate enough hysteria, enough fear about “MAGA extremists,” they may yet hang on to Congress.
If that happens, the next two years will be a nightmare that most on the right would prefer not to experience."
"Telling your political opponents that you can use the Air Force to go after them the way you can the FBI isn’t “semi-fascism”: it’s full-on unfiltered torchlight parade in a stadium fascism."
"There is, I know, a point of no return, a point beyond which a society beset by totalitarian impulses must either rebel or succumb utterly. Are we there yet? I do not know. I do sense, however, that we have come perilously close to the edge. I pray that it is not too late."