Nationalism and Globalism

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I’ve read Timothy Snyder’s last book “Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin”. He knows what he’s talking about.

I literally agree with all the points he’s made in the interview and have written something along those lines about the dismantling of the Weimar republic and how everyone expected Hitler’s pivot to the center:

Trump Inauguration Thread

First of all, there are Hitler comparisons that are ludicrous (omg he’s the new Hitler) and there are those that are applicable (his rise to power, for example). In 1932 a German conservative politician named Kurt von Schleicher believed the country was under threat from an imminent communist/socialist takeover (not national-socialist but Karl Marx workers-of-the-world-unite socialist) since over 40% of the electorate voted for them. He believed that Weimar Germany was suffering a “cultural a…