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5. Please read the article - Hitler was supressed by almost 10 years after the failed Putsch
Tue Jan 4, 2022, 02:09 PM
Jan 2022

To quote the article: ...

Hitler emerged from his high-profile trial and the imprisonment, where he wrote his political treatise Mein Kampf, “more popular than ever,” according to History.com. But German elections in the 1920s tell a much different story. In a May 1924 Reichstag election, the Nazis received 1.6 million votes, or 5.7 percent of the total. In another election seven months later, the Nazi total had declined to 907,000, or 3 percent of the total. By the 1928 general election, five years after the Beer Hall Putsch, Nazis received just 2.8 percent of the vote.


Hitler was only able to rise again in popularity due to the Great Depression starting in 1929.

I do want to point out that in the article by David Gumpert, he states:
In the first major election since the coup attempt, the Trump-endorsed candidate for governor of Virginia handily beat the candidate endorsed by President Joe Biden—this only a year after Biden beat Trump in Virginia by 10 percentage points in the 2020 presidential election.


However, one should look at the actual vote in Virginia. Youngkin won with only a 2% margin 50.6% to 48.6% or 1,663,596 to 1,600,116 over McAuliffe. Compared to the several previous governor races in Virginia this was a very slight margin. In 2017, Northam (D) won by 8.9%; in 2013, McAuliffe (D) won by 2.5%; in 2009, McDonnell (R) won by 17.3%; and in 2005, Kaine (D) won by 5.7%. Virginia is not a predictor of future presidential races.

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