I left the movie thinking about how the whole series would end up showing how fascist and authoritarian governments and societies rise from people ' s fear we could see that a little bit with MACUSA , with the wand registration , and clock thingy showing how much danger everyone ' s in , and that quote by the President about how nomajs lash out when scared it looks to me like a society and government motivated by fear of exposure to muggles and the consequences of it , and I think we ' ll see more of that as the series goes on as more and more Wizarding governments either align themselves with values like Grindelwald ' s , or become stricter and more authoritarian as a reaction to Grindelwald and the threat of exposure that he poses I think they ' re scared of him and muggles at the same time . And obviously we ' ve got WWII as well , and it wasn ' t just the Axis powers where this happened you ' ve got issues like internment camps as well . Also , I got curious about MACUSA and googled it turns out it was pretty much founded as a direct response to the Salem Witch Trials , and that they seemed to have a severe and traumatic impact on American wizards . As a nonAmerican ie I could definitely be off the mark here cause I didn ' t experience if , it also made me think the trials were almost like a 911 kind of event a deeply traumatic event that shaped societal attitudes and stiff and just made people really darn scared , and the world a darker and less trustworthy place .