Historian Frank McDonough explains the period leading up to Hitler’s takeover of Germany in The Weimar Years. The insights provided into the success of extremist rhetoric are a timely warning for our times.
Neo-conservative historian Robert Kagan has written a piece in the Washington Post entitled "A Trump Dictatorship Is Increasingly Inevitable." Others are raising a similar alarm. Trump isn't dictator material. But democracies can turn to dictatorship, and in today's "illiberal" climate on both the right and the left, the danger is real.