A colloquial idiom can prefigure an entire fascist seizure of power.

Evidence

The phrase ‘Kommt überhaupt gar nicht in Frage’ [‘it’s completely and utterly out of the question’] which probably came into use in Berlin in the twenties, is already potentially Hitler’s seizure of power. For it pretends that private will, founded sometimes on real rights but usually on mere affrontery, directly represents an objective necessity that admits no disagreement. At bottom, it is the refusal of a bankrupt negotiator to pay the other a farthing, in the proud awareness that there is nothing more to be got out of him. The crooked lawyer’s dodge is brazenly inflated to heroic steadfastness: the linguistic formula for usurpation. This bluff defines equally the success and the collapse of National Socialism. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 128

Categorization

• XREF: Foreshadows Viktor Klemperer’s LTI — the language of the Third Reich — and George Orwell’s politics-and-language thesis.
• SEED: An essay on authoritarian speech acts: how everyday rhetorical refusal pre-encodes domination.