A common thread ties the rise of American authoritarianism with the Nazis marching on Melbourne streets, writes Dr Alex Vickery-Howe. He is the martyr, the victim, Prometheus chained to the rock, the self-sacrificing hero who fights single-handed against impossible odds. It didn’t matter that he’d been the aggressor up to that very second. It didn’t even matter whether it was Biden or Harris who opposed Trump moving forward. In the meantime, we can expect Trump and Sewell to keep playing classic hits from an old German staple.