Indeed. That said, I do fear a second Trump presidency could potentially be more extreme and dangerous than the first. In the intervening four years Trump has surrounded himself with much more extreme people than he had 8 years ago. These are not lazy, and have had the last four years to prepare to enact their agenda. No one – including Trump himself – expected him to win 8 years ago and everyone was caught flat-footed. Also at this point Trump was still on somewhat speaking terms with reality, whereas now they've become estranged. Never mind his temper has become even more foul since then.

There's been some articles about the people preparing for Trump 2.0, and it's not looking good. So there is definitely potential for danger, especially of the GOP also has the senate. I just don't think this article accurately describes the dangers.

Germany in the early 1930's also had this sense that the foolish Chaplin-like character with his NSDAP party was anyway never going to amount to much.

Situation of 1920s and 1930s Germany is entirely different in almost every respect. It's pointless to compare the two, and enumerating the differences would essentially be giving a full history because almost everything of substance is different.