• CitizenKong@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Hitler could only take over because the conservatives were more afraid of the communists and thought they could control Hitler and use him. He used them instead.

    Something similar seems to happen again now in Germany.

    • Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Hitler Trump could only take over because the conservatives were more afraid of the communists the left and thought they could control Hitler Trump and use him. He used them instead.

      As the other comment or noted, that still works for trump. That’s basically 2016 in a nutshell

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      3 months ago

      That kind of talk has been consistent with the conservatives now too. The big bad scary socialist coming to the white house to destroy the economy. Same playbook. My point stands