“Outside of 1930s Germany I am not aware of that working anywhere else,” Richards added.
Um, no, that works all over the place.
Since 1930s Germany is mentioned, it also didn’t really work there. Hitler only won with 35 percent of the popular vote. So Trump in the US is already more popular as Hitler was then.
Most people don’t realize this. You might enjoy this book:
Takeover: HITLER’S FINAL RISE TO POWER
It’s frightening to realize how the nazis were barely clinging to power and almost disappeared before becoming dominant. We’re right there now.
That statement kind of elides the whole electoral and legislative structure of the Weimar Republic at the time, though. It was a parliamentary system (whose legislative body was - and was again, after the fall of the Third Reich - the Reichstag). So in point of fact, though the NSDAP (the Nazi Party) received a plurality of the votes in the WR’s last three elections, nobody “voted for Hitler”. So the analogy of political tribalism being leveraged by a fascist party with a fascist cult-of-personality head actually holds up a good bit better than the numbers you present here might lead one to assume.
It’s fair to point out that the NSDAP sort of formed around Hitler, where as the GOP (“Weimar” Republicans? Might have to start using that as a sneaky jab in conversation, hah) was subsumed by Trumpism, but all he really did was to turn the quiet parts of their platform up to 11 and emphasize populist and tribal (not as in “First Nation”) sentiments. However, I’d argue that that makes the GOP/Trump combination a good bit more insidious than the NSDAP - especially considering how much the GOP loves to lean on the technically-true-but-deeply-misleading line of “we’re the party that ended slavery”, since it utterly ignores the ideological shift of the party over the intervening 160 or so years.
Note: absolutely none of this should be construed in any way as Nazi apologia. It is simply a technical clarification on the system of government and the electoral and leadership-selection mechanics that existed in the Weimar Republic at the time, and my thoughts as to how that matches up with some parts of our current situation, in terms of the political analogies.
Kind of scary to think if we had parliamentary type elections Trump has a dedicated 35. There may be a larger coalition of liberal parties still but this election wouldn’t be the moratorium of Trump as we hope it turns out. Him and his party would win a substantial amount of seats.
Then you see the example Macron in France just set. Overwhelming liberal victory and he’s handing the PM spot to a very old, homophobic conservative.
Hitler only became Chancellor because “moderates” were more afraid to form a coalition with leftists than allow a fascist to rise to power. Sound familiar?
If we had a parliamentary system, we would have been able to organize a much larger coalition against Trump, especially the second time around.
Hitler could only take over because the conservatives were more afraid of the communists and thought they could control Hitler and use him. He used them instead.
Something similar seems to happen again now in Germany.
HitlerTrump could only take over because the conservatives were more afraid of thecommuniststhe left and thought they could controlHitlerTrump and use him. He used them instead.
As the other comment or noted, that still works for trump. That’s basically 2016 in a nutshell
I’m sorry you got downvoted for being right. You weren’t rude or anything 🤷
it is. caught on after Biden called him that. as jabba the cunt is someone who loves seeing and hearing his own name everywhere, some people use ways other than his name to refer to him. TFG is one of them.
of course there’s no reason why it shouldn’t be interpreted as this fucking guy/goon/git etc
The GOP seemed like it might have been turning against Trump (since, you know, he lost). And then it didn’t, and everyone was back to groveling at his feet. They had his name in lights at the RNC as if he was Roxy from Chicago.
They deserve the candidate they ran with.
“I better win or you’re gonna have problems like we’ve never had. We may have no country left,” Trump said at his weekend swing-state rally. “This may be our last election. You want to know the truth? People have said that. This could be our last election.”
It’s always projection with him and his supporters.
Side note: the thumbnail on this article has priceless meme potential.
Side note: the thumbnail on this article has priceless meme potential.
That’s the face my kid used to make as a baby when pooping.
Also orange dipshit:
I am going to be a dictator on day one
Interviewer:
Did you mean…
Orange dipshit:
Did I stutter?
