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Brown shirts: Followers of a particular political leader who are organized to intimidate that leader's opponents by violence or the threat of violence metaphor derived from the SA organization that supported Hitler in his early rise to power.
Trump supporters who threaten armed revolution or attempt to intimidate their opponents with violence or by carrying weapons to demonstrations are a contemporary equivalent of the German brown shirts.
by docpapio July 29, 2017
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