All autocrats rely on how ordinary, unexceptional individuals can commit horrific acts due to a lack of critical thinking and a tendency to follow orders; it is happening here:
American Concentration Camps
"The autocrat openly revels in the cruelty.
"'I look forward to watching the sick terrorist thugs get 20 year jail sentences for what they are doing to Elon Musk and Tesla,'
"Trump
wrote on Truth Social. 'Perhaps they could serve them in the prisons of El Salvador, which have become so recently famous for such lovely conditions!'
"Those that build concentration camps are proud of them.
"They show them off to the press, or at least the sycophants posing as the press.
"Secretary for Homeland Security Kristi Noem, who
posted a video of herself visiting the El Salvadoran prison, used the shirtless and head shaved inmates as a stage prop for her threats against immigrants.
"If fascism does one thing well, it is spectacle."