My full response to this article is too long to embed, so here's a link: http://txti.es/weimar-america http://txti.es/weimar-america I think Richard Evans is

My full response to this article is too long to embed, so here's a link: http://txti.es/weimar-america http://txti.es/weimar-america I think Richard Evans is showing his age as far as cultural disconnect from the youth is concerned (which has extreme importance in his analysis, as the Nazi Party was comprised of mostly of disaffected young adults). "The level of political violence in the last years of the Weimar Republic was astonishing: in the first half of 1932, 84 Nazis were killed in street clashes with other armed groups, as were 75 communists. In the Prussian election campaign that summer, there were 105 violent deaths, and police counted 461 political riots with 82 deaths. This has no parallel in today’s democracies, for which we should be thankful." The Internet is the new beer hall. We're only seeing the tip of the iceberg of the transition from digital spaces flame wars to meatspace brawls. In short, Trump isn't Hitler and Bojo isn't Mosley. But they are certainly canaries in the coal mine for what these societies are trending towards. Or to put it another way, it took the Nazi Party six years to grow the war machine that took over Europe. But before it took power, earnest adherents of the Weimar Republic spent 13 years inadvertently sabotaging their own systemic predicates to try and stop Hitler and/or the KPD from spreading and seizing power.