Trump has a very long history of using this kind of thing to say what the campaign is thinking about doing.

If you want to stop that kind of fascist outcome, about the only real option is to make sure Biden gets reelected and has a Democratic congress to help him.

That means three things:

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    I don’t think the word Reich, without further context, is by itself suspect in German. It just a generic word for realm, and is not bound to any specific political system. Even their parliament building is still called the Reichstag. In German it’s also common to refer to modern day monarchies as Königreich. Even the Belgian constitution, where German is one of the three official languages, refers to the country as das Königreich. And there are even two whole countries that have it in their German name: Österreich and Frankreich.

    Where it becomes suspect is when inexplicably the German word is used in the English language in a certain context by certain politicians with certain ideas, as it is here.