"Realpolitik tended to be dismissed as unheroic cattle trading: the idea was to replace politics with a state of social intoxication."
--from "Blitzed-- Drugs in the Third Reich," by Norman Ohler.
Trump is no Hitler (Hitler was better able to juggle public relations and administration), and the USA is not the Weimar Republic (our popular music is less good), but the above is yet another similarity.
I'm hoping the people who throw ein rod every time I bring up Hitler will read what I wrote and understand my point, rather than reminding me that I'm somehow insulting the memory of their ancestors by making this entirely reasonable comparison. (It seems to me that if long dead ancestors are inclined to feel insulted, mine will be the first to find that their ears are burning gestorben wird immer.)
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