A new book on Hitler’s rise to power examines how a country with a functional, if flawed, democratic machinery handed absolute power over to someone whom the conservative political class regarded as a chaotic clown with a violent following. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Nazi leader didn’t seize power; he was given it.
Mitch McConnell is Franz von Pappen.
I'm pretty sure this was "forgotten" only by people who don't read a lot of history books.
The only people these days that seem to remember anything about how Hitler came to power are those trying to follow in Hitler's shoes. Within every Democratic machine there is ALWAYS a fascist wrench. You can't have one without the other.
I just read the description to my wife, deliberately leaving out the name. Then asked her whom she thought it was about. No surprise, she immediately said “Trump” (with almost a “duh” implied in the tone of her response).