Strange and confusing little article...
Starts off intimating that the Smollett hoax could have been our Reichstag fire had it bein pulled off, and then at the end he pulls back.
I guess he really wanted to talk about the Reichstag fire more than he wanted to talk about anything going on now.
This Smollett thing was such a penny-ante hoax that it doesn't bear comparison to major world events, and such an obvious hoax, that it's idle to speculate about what would have happened if he wasn't exposed.
The guy was incompetent, a small time fraudster and he was eventually going to get caught.
I’ve always known “four weeks hence” to mean “four weeks in the future,” not “for weeks prior.”
Adolf Hitler had been sworn in as Germany’s chancellor just four weeks hence