@BeschlossDC @gtconway3d Addendum: German political establishment ‘thought they could control him’
@SteveGoffman @BeschlossDC @gtconway3d and he did it by legal means. Stay vigilant folks to how govt sneakily makes amendments to whittle away democracy
@SteveGoffman @BeschlossDC @gtconway3d They thought so. If they formed a grand coalition, then perhaps Paul von Hindenburg wouldn't accept Hitler as Chancellor. However, the German Right and Franz von Papen in particular thought they could tame the devil. The rest is a tragic history.
@SteveGoffman @BeschlossDC @gtconway3d GOP thought they could control him.
@SteveGoffman @BeschlossDC @gtconway3d The German people were more afraid of “the socialists”, than they were of the Nazis. Sound familiar??
@SteveGoffman @BeschlossDC @gtconway3d I seem to remember a certain political party saying the same about Dumpty in 2015.
@SteveGoffman @BeschlossDC @gtconway3d The parallels just keep piling up...