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(13,868 posts)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
(365 posts)I too remember reading about how Hindenburg advised the Weimar Republic that it could control the "vulgar little corporal".
sandensea
(21,621 posts)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
(1,192 posts)if we pay attention.
iluvtennis
(19,844 posts)GopherGal
(2,008 posts)but it often rhymes.
(attribution to Mark Twain is disputed...)
halfulglas
(1,654 posts)JHB
(37,158 posts)monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)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
(33,318 posts)wnylib
(21,422 posts)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
(13,096 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)We saw on Jan 6 what happens when you court the extremists and crazies.
Blue Owl
(50,347 posts)uponit7771
(90,335 posts)... 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.