No, it's not just you. Though it is an overworked metaphor, several have posted their observations of parallels.
We still have a Constitutional structure that constrains the worst instincts among the GOPERs.
So I look it it as more of a 'poor man's Reich', unless or until there is a 'The Night of the Long Knives (German: soundNacht der langen Messer', perhaps against RINOS; or maybe a Reichstag/Capitol fire that would be blamed on ANTIFA, or the Dems.
In other words some really crazy shit, crazier shit, STILL needs to happen