People forget, Adolf Hitler didn't happen over night. His rise to power was made possible by the slow bleed of scapegoating and hate. Calls for civility were accompanied with the naive and blind assertions that "it can't get any worse" or "this can't be happening here" in a stable democracy ...
Throw in the debt loads and trade wars - complete with tariffs battles and competitive currency devaluations - that followed the market collapse of 1929, and history becomes our nation's whisper.
- Mark
Hat tip to David Chisholm for the page clip, from "The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimer Republic," by Benjamin Carter Hett.
Throw in the debt loads and trade wars - complete with tariffs battles and competitive currency devaluations - that followed the market collapse of 1929, and history becomes our nation's whisper.
- Mark
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