Then he turned on them like a hyena in heat...

[pbmus]

Link to tweet

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[SCantiGOP]

1. von Hindenburg assured the Conservatives

that they could control Hitler. He said something to the effect that they would put him in a corner, and then discard him when he and his minority party were of no further use.
Spoiler alert: it didn't quite work out.

[Person of Interest]

4. Perfect analogy!

I too remember reading about how Hindenburg advised the Weimar Republic that it could control the "vulgar little corporal".

[sandensea]

9. And, above all, that this was the best way to defeat the social democrats.

The Liz Warrens, Bernie Sanderses and AOCs of their day. The Bidens and Harrises too.

Big Business has always had that tendency to be afraid of the wrong people.

[BarbD]

2. History is a good teacher --

if we pay attention.

[iluvtennis]

3. Indeed it is. nt

[GopherGal]

12. history doesn't repeat itself...

but it often rhymes.

(attribution to Mark Twain is disputed...)

[halfulglas]

5. Michael Beschloss is the best.

[JHB]

6. How it started/How it's going

[monkeyman1]

7. trump & HITLER

if that is the case , in the bunker , Adolf & Eva committed suicide rather than the Russians getting them in very last day's of the German empire !! when is you know how's turn ????

[Hermit-The-Prog]

8. The Radical Republican Reich, formerly the Republican Party, loves their orange terrorist.

[wnylib]

10. I recall an article in 2016 by columnist

Eugene Pitts that made this comparison of how the elite conservatives in Germany thought they could make a deal with Hitler and control him.

I had read enough of how Hitler came to power to agree with Mr. Pitts. But, when I tried to warn people, I got accused of alarmism and hyperbole at best. Most people snickered at such a "dumb" comparison because Trump had not sent people to death camps in 2016. But Hitler had not done that - yet - in his campaigns to power, either.

The problem was that the horrors that developed under Nazi rule overshadowed HOW they got into power, so very few Americans were prepared to recognize early warning signs.

[live love laugh]

11. Well stated. "How" indeed. nt

[flibbitygiblets]

13. They're doing the same thing with white supremacists and Qanon

We saw on Jan 6 what happens when you court the extremists and crazies.

[Blue Owl]

14. K&R for visibility

[uponit7771]

15. WORSE !!! The "elites" in Germany grouped together to fight the left moderate and extreme and the

... backlash was part against the economics of the last 10 yrs before 33 and the prominence of the left which did NOT stick together against the right when they came to power.

The left in Germany thought their MAGA was going to be rejected more too, they were but NOT before the MAZI's took irreversible power after Reichstag fire.

I pray dems have learned from this and use this time to reform voting and make it easier for Americans to do ... we have little time.