Fascist sentiments aren’t sprouting up all over the Western world for no reason, it’s a reaction to decades of grinding neoliberalism.

Every fascist movement is funded and organized by the capitalist class. They are not grassroots movements, they are false revolutions that maintain the capitalists’ position of power. The January 6th riot/insurrection didn’t just magically appear, it was planned and it was funded in the millions of dollars.

Michael Parenti: Fascism, the False Revolution

This is too subtle for most of your audience. You really gotta crank it up to Verhoeven to be understood, and even then…

In North Korea, parents cannot feed their children. We give them mud, because children is so hungry. And when you eat mud, you die in ten days: you cannot go to bathroom. Even though you know your children are dying, you still give them the mud.

Yes. I think your perspective is through Hollywood-tinted glasses. When was the last time something like that happened in real life and actually had devastating effects on the ruling class?

No way they’d risk him getting up on the stand

Defendants don’t get up on the stand if they want any chance of a not guilt verdict.

and even less likely they’d want to try their luck getting twelve people to convict.

It’s not so unlikely. It ought to be, but it isn’t.