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By Jeffrey Herf
November 23, 2020 at 6:00 a.m. EST
... as .. Republican officials and voices in the conservative media amplify the lie that Trumps rightful victory was stolen from him, we should revisit .. German denial of .. defeat at the end of World War I ...
... Imperial Germany bore responsibility for escalating a conflict in the Balkans into a Europe-wide war... the fight on the Western Front became a stalemate ...
The war was .. lost because of .. the refusal .. to accept a compromise peace in 1916 ...
... the stab-in-the-back legend was the parting shot of the authoritarian regime that sought to shift blame for the lost war ...
The lie that German democracy .. was responsible for the disaster .. figured prominently in the .. assault on the Weimar Republic ...
... the spirit of Erich Ludendorff is alive and well in .. the Republican Party ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/11/23/trumps-refusal-acknowledge-defeat-mirrors-lie-that-fueled-nazi-rise/
raccoon
(31,110 posts)By Thomas Childers, and in the first chapter he talks about this.
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)He says os quite explicitly in the introduction to The Gathering Storm.
bucolic_frolic
(43,161 posts)authoritarianism. Some would argue the roots go back to the late 1800s, the Kaiser, the age of Wagner.
This has Nazi stamped all over it. It's why the US must prosecute many of them.
Lonestarblue
(9,988 posts)Its a really good history lesson and warning. Republicans are allowing Trumps bid lie of a stolen election to stand. We really need all the media to make stories about the lawsuits he is losing, and why, more prominent. Far too many believe that Biden stole the election. That monstrous lie cannot be allowed to stand.
uponit7771
(90,339 posts)Ponietz
(2,970 posts)The bloated tick has 57 days, still, to engineer another Reichstag fire. Encouraging and spreading the pandemic didnt work.
Two obvious routes remain provoking war with Iran, and unleashing the domestic terrorist zombies.