In many ways it resembles the story of Weimar republic and Hitler's ascension to power. There have been of lot of speculation about why that may have happened,

In many ways it resembles the story of Weimar republic and Hitler's ascension to power. There have been of lot of speculation about why that may have happened, what kind of social forces have made the population behave in a way that ultimately harmed everyone etc. but there was no way to test it experimentally. Now there's a window of opportunity for social scientists to test the hypotheses and maybe even find out what's really going on in these kind of situations.