[IronJack]

Right now, I think Trump is playing the demagogue card. And doing it well. The benefit of that is that it makes the unsayable sayable. It crushes political correctness, and emboldens the timid. In other words, it sets a new bar.

If you feel like a citizen of Germany in the post-WWI days, maybe it's because those citizens felt overwhelmed by the shame the world tried to heap on them, the onerous economic conditions of the time, and the hopelessness that arose from a weak, compliant government. Kind of like the United States today ...

You fear Trump. I fear just about anyone else.

[Hardens Hollow]

“If you feel like a citizen of Germany in the post-WWI days, maybe it’s because those citizens felt overwhelmed by the shame the world tried to heap on them, the onerous economic conditions of the time, and the hopelessness that arose from a weak, compliant government. Kind of like the United States today ...”

Plus the overwhelming debt the treaty if Versailles saddled Germany with. ($18 T for us, done by our own government)

[Olog-hai]

German citizens post-WWI were being pummeled with the Dolchstoßlegende propaganda (I prefer Dolchstoßlüge) that had them believing that the loss of the “Great War” was due to some undefined (and spuriously-claimed) treachery of Jews with respect to the disestablishment of the monarchy there.

The only people pushing stuff like that in the USA today are the liberal “anti-Zionists” defending the lies of the so-called “Palestinians” and worse, indoctrinating college campuses and pushing the lies through the liberal media.