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kimbutgar

(21,172 posts)
2. The only bright light is MF45 is 75 and it's obvious he is in a cognitive mental decline.
Sat Jan 30, 2021, 04:44 PM
Jan 2021

But I worried who MF45 2.0 might be In the future.

brush

(53,801 posts)
3. Hawley jump the gun and thought he could be it, and Cruz soon followed.
Sat Jan 30, 2021, 06:09 PM
Jan 2021

trump Jr. probably has designs on trumps mega base too, but none of them have the goods. And the nation does not want fascism. The insurrection did not work and Biden is going to get the credit for beating back covid, what with the vaccine delivery ramping up under the new admin.

The economy will boost up to as a result. The republican party is in disarray and may split, further weakening trump's influence. trump, with his legal and debt problems, won't be that relevant.

AntiFascist

(12,792 posts)
6. President Wilson, suffering from the Spanish Flu, came down hard on Germany following WWI...
Sat Jan 30, 2021, 06:56 PM
Jan 2021

it has been argued that if he'd had all of his mental faculties he would have been more conciliatory, and the rise of Nazism may have been less likely to happen.

madinmaryland

(64,933 posts)
7. More like Hawley's failed coup...
Sat Jan 30, 2021, 06:58 PM
Jan 2021

So is this what he runs on in four or eight years.

trump will not be running in 2024 (well at least it is highly unlikely).

uponit7771

(90,348 posts)
8. K&R, It wasn't all about the economy with Germans either. By time 1933 came their economy was ...
Sat Jan 30, 2021, 08:39 PM
Jan 2021

... on the mend it was about the left in the country getting power and not sticking together against the right.

They ignored the Nazis thinking they were fringe till the right came together and got a pluralistic share of the German parliament one year

Captain_New_York

(161 posts)
9. The economic, social and political upheaval of post WW 1 Germany
Sat Jan 30, 2021, 08:50 PM
Jan 2021

We are not experience nothing like the crazy times faced by the brand new Weimar Republic transitioning from imperialism in the midst of just about every European monarchy being overthrown and an economic collapse ( plus the Spanish flue).

Watch Babylon Berlin on Netflix for some insight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_Berlin

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