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Hmmm, "enabling" legislation, where I have I heard that before. I think it was in 1933, but where....?"
Congratulations SoCal Pubbie, you get the StJacques Award for Historical Acumen for today.
I was waiting to see if anyone remembered the Enabling Act the Reichstag passed on March 23, 1933.
And I think it will also be useful to compare what transpires in Venezuela over the next few months as their equivalent of Hitler's
Gleichschaltung.
"Chavez is preparing to destroy the municipal and state governments in the country in order to replace them with his own appointed bodies. "
This also seems reminiscent of Hitler's move to liquidate the German states' autonomy and make them mere administrative districts of the Fatherland.