SalonJune 06, 2021
If Donald Trump s movement is destined to be America s answer to Nazism, then the Joe Biden administration is currently a rough equivalent of the Weimar Republic â the unstable constitutional democracy that governed Germany before the rise of Adolf Hitler. The comparison is imperfect, but the cautionary tale is still clear. There is an obvious risk that Biden and the narrow Democratic majorities in Congress will fail, and that Trump or a successor will take over and then cement themselves into power for at least the next generation. Every American who wants to avoid this â especially Biden and the leading Democrats in Congress â needs to learn the right lessons from Germany in the 1920s and 1930s.