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> Trump as a kingmaker with a vastly outsize influence Hmm, now you mention it, didn't something like that happen to the Weimar Republic?
by waqf 10y ago
> Trump as a kingmaker with a vastly outsize influence
Hmm, now you mention it, didn't something like that happen to the Weimar Republic?
- dragonwriter 10y agoArguably, it's what failed to happen; Hitler ended up leading a minority government with the largest party (well, tied with the Communists), no one acted as kingmaker with a small party putting some other coalition over the top extracting concessions for that boost. There was kingmaking of a more personal kind going on behind the scenes, but not of the minor-party-exercises outsized influence kind.