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