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One piece of history, hardly even contested, is that Hitler came to power when "moderates" were trying to "stem the tide" of "extremism" from the left and the r
by jstewartmobile 8y ago
One piece of history, hardly even contested, is that Hitler came to power when "moderates" were trying to "stem the tide" of "extremism" from the left and the right. von Papen--along with other industrialists, nobles, and political elites--wrote a letter to Hindenburg asking him to appoint Hitler as chancellor, then Hindenburg complied.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler#Rise_to_power https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler#Rise_to_power
Now we're going after far-left like Greenwald and TruthDig, and far-right like Cernovich and InfoWars. People just need to grow a pair and trust the process. Teutonic authoritarianism didn't work then, and it's not going to work now.