President Trump

[janvanvurpa]

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I was not aware that Adolf did not have the backing of the military. I'm pretty sure that Machtergreifung was a thing. I'm also pretty sure that those guys in brown shirts and called themselves the Sturmabteilung, were also a thing.

Shall I defer to your better knowledge and assume your worldview that this was just the Tony winning performance of an elaborate theatre company?

Everything I can read from all sides current and later there was zero "love" or respect for the "Austrian Corporal" from the Prussian dominated Officier class of the German military..begiining thru the end
The...SS* and SA** (SS being Sturm Staffel and SA being Sturm Abteilung, and SS was originally part of SA) on the other hand were a "Private Army"... In fact the SA was soon to be purged because they were too leftie)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives

The one similarity I see is that the mainstay of who voted for Adolph and Friends and who voted for the Orange Thing with a dead Animal on his head were both "disaffected voters"..then primarily low level low educated shopkeeper class (and try and remember how old cities were with every block lined on ground floor with shops after shops after shop...for greens or coal or stationery or newspapers or apotek or whatever) LOTS of shopkeepers.. The did exit polling then too.. According to what I have read (some KPD analysis and oral histories of KPD people and later writing by active players in that election) These shopkeepers felt 'threatened by the rising income and social status of working class people'...In THAT we see similarity that in the old induftrial areas we call "The Rust Belt", there is an enormous seething discontent..hate even....and a demagogue like Drumph can easily point at a whole lotta people and say to these pissed off people who have been fawked and are pissed "Its all THEIR fault"..

Worked then, works now..

Oh the other obvious parallell: YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGELY absurd claims that "Only I can save you"

Since most Americans are authoritarian followers, that works every time.




*SS tended to be "middle class"
**SA tended to be "working class" and unemployed