From Dachau to CECOT: The Rebranding of Fascism and the American Descent

## Introduction · *The Vance Paradox—Memorializing Atrocity, Repeating It* A vice‑presidential motorcade rolled through the medieval streets of Dachau in February, converging on the memorial erected over the Third Reich’s inaugural concentration camp. Cameras captured J. D. Vance laying a wreath beside a 97‑year‑old survivor; hashtags of solemn remembrance trended for an hour. Less than eight weeks later, the same official endorsed an extraterritorial deportation scheme that deposits asylum...