I know, and I agree.
As someone who was (and probably, in my heart and mind, sort of still is) a professional historian, I just keep attempting to persuade myself that this is not an unsettling re-run of those (deceptively calm years, when the forces of "democracy" apeared to have won that immediate battle, and that lying, cowardly, cruel, mentally unbalanced, screaming clown - with his powerful, cynical, amoral and enabling friends - whose crude attempt at a coup had been effectively defeated and who had been disgraced) years (in Weimar Germany) between, let us say, 1924 and 1929.