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Nevilledog

(50,952 posts) Fri Sep 18, 2020, 04:26 PM Sep 2020

Jeff Tiedrich: we literally gave the most important job in the world...

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Jeff Tiedrich: we literally gave the most important job in the world... (Original Post) Nevilledog Sep 2020 OP

WE didn't, the anti-democratic Electoral College did. SharonClark Sep 2020 #1

+1, ... and there's no doubt Hitler got to power within German law even without the support of 2/3rd uponit7771 Sep 2020 #2

SharonClark

(10,014 posts)

1. WE didn't, the anti-democratic Electoral College did.

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Fri Sep 18, 2020, 04:29 PM

Sep 2020

uponit7771

(90,301 posts)

2. +1, ... and there's no doubt Hitler got to power within German law even without the support of 2/3rd

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Fri Sep 18, 2020, 04:38 PM

Sep 2020

... 2/3rds of Germans.

The NAZI party had a plurality of votes in their parliament IINM too, Hitler's rise to power was legal until the Reichstag fire.

Trump can't even say that, he got help from the Russians funding 3rd party candidates in swing states in 16.

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