• Blackout@fedia.io
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    Kind of scary to think if we had parliamentary type elections Trump has a dedicated 35. There may be a larger coalition of liberal parties still but this election wouldn’t be the moratorium of Trump as we hope it turns out. Him and his party would win a substantial amount of seats.

    Then you see the example Macron in France just set. Overwhelming liberal victory and he’s handing the PM spot to a very old, homophobic conservative.

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      Hitler could only take over because the conservatives were more afraid of the communists and thought they could control Hitler and use him. He used them instead.

      Something similar seems to happen again now in Germany.

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        Hitler Trump could only take over because the conservatives were more afraid of the communists the left and thought they could control Hitler Trump and use him. He used them instead.

        As the other comment or noted, that still works for trump. That’s basically 2016 in a nutshell

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        That kind of talk has been consistent with the conservatives now too. The big bad scary socialist coming to the white house to destroy the economy. Same playbook. My point stands

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      Hitler only became Chancellor because “moderates” were more afraid to form a coalition with leftists than allow a fascist to rise to power. Sound familiar?

      If we had a parliamentary system, we would have been able to organize a much larger coalition against Trump, especially the second time around.