• oce 🐆@jlai.lu
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    7 months ago

    He would not have managed to get any support if it wasn’t for the hate and scapegoating, he’d be some unknown good guy.

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      7 months ago

      That simply isn’t true, contemporary sources make it clear that he had charisma to spare. The Weimar Republic was ripe for a radical populist movement due to a number of reasons, but that means a less hateful ideology could have succeeded as well. The period balanced on a political knife edge, and who knows what would have happened if he’d been a true believer in something actually helpful?