Who’s running the country? That question became terrifyingly urgent this weekend when the President of the United States admitted he was preparing to send US military forces into an American …

  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    I never understood how Hitler got such power until Trump came along. Then I realized it wasn’t Hitler giving orders, it was that the people in the system wanted it. They wanted to give him their power.

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      Thankfully, the United States is nowhere as unified as Germany was leading up to World War 2.

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        Don’t get it wrong. The “unity” in Germany was the result of “first they came for…”. Hitler didn’t win any fair election. Only after jailing all the opposing parties he won.