Just watched a several hours-long fascinating if somewhat dry BBC documentary on Hitler's rise to power and his gradual snuffing out of Germany's democratic institutions. Many people don't understand that he was lawfully elected and subverted the democratic apparatus in mostly legal ways.
I was struck by the resemblance between Project 2025 and the tactics and strategies used by the Nazis. But perhaps the most chilling parallel is the constant use of "Make Germany great again" as a party slogan, as early as 1928. You might miss it, watching that old newsreel footage, because of course you would never see the slogan on a banner or hear it spoken by Hitler in English. But I'm fluent in German, and I was struck by how central that slogan was to their message and how often and stridently it was repeated.
And then as now, how the masses cheered!
