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Forward Kentucky: The U.S. and pre-Nazi Germany: the similarities are growing, and dangerous

Berry Craig
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By BERRY CRAIG

Pundits and historians are comparing President Joe Biden and the Democrats to the Social Democrats, the staunchest supporters of the short-lived German Weimar Republic which Adolf Hitler and the Nazis toppled in 1933.

I googled “Weimar and Joe Biden” and got a slew of hits.

The comparison between Weimar and today “is imperfect, but the cautionary tale is still clear,” Salon’s Matthew Rozsa wrote last year. He’s pursuing a Ph.D. in history.

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