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Lightning Strikes posted...

While there is something in that, Hitler was a legitimate idiot who failed at grabbing power many times before he actually got it. Nazi Germany was an incompetently led organisational nightmare, and he was largely seen as a joke before taking power. And bear in mind, Weimar Germany had much stronger democratic systems than the US. Hitler never got a majority electorally. He gained power because the centre and centre-right gave it to him to stop the left.

There is actually an upside to comparisons to Hitler if they're earned, because the man is a massive cautionary tale.

Is this a joke? Weimar Germany had stronger democratic institutions than the US? The country whose democratic institutions lasted 13 years before collapsing had stronger institutions than the one which has lasted over 230 years, and is modeled in large part on a system (UK) that has lasted 800ish years?

You can argue that the UK/US system is not fair, but history has proven that it is extremely stable.

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