Dinesh DSouza: "Hitler got his ideas from the Democrats!"

[DetlefK]

34. You got some details mixed up.

The biggest parties at the time were:
NSDAP - nationalist, fascist, anti-liberal, racist
Zentrum - basically centrists
SPD - social-democrats, center-left
KPD - communists, extreme left

The democracy of the Weimarer Republik was young and inexperienced and had no system in place how to deal with political sabotage.
The Communists and the NSDAP both wanted to see democracy gone and both sabotaged the parliamentary process. Crisis ensued, except the NSDAP was able to outmaneuver the KPD by allying with Big Money and used the political chaos to their advantage. The KPD lost the power-struggle and was destroyed.

But make no mistake: Hitler rose to power because democracy was under attack from both sides.