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