Is This the West’s Weimar Moment?

An interesting article. I still hold that the fall of the two party system in America would be the best thing for this nation.

It is interesting that he believes the Weimar Republic was a liberal democracy. It was a defeated nation with a fledgling government under massive payments it had to make as part of the loss of WW1 (Treaty of Versailles). Couple that with a depression and a population looking for a scapegoat and you have the National Socialist Party of Germany. The comparison he should be making to WWII Germany is Sanders, not Trump. Sanders is the socialist looking to hoist more government central control over us, more spending and an economy even more out of control than today. The situations are so different, the comparison doesn't really work but it is en vogue to compare Trump to Nazi's. Not very accurate but expected.

We should stop looking for boogeymen in the candidates we have and decide which one(s) will ensure we remain as free as possible (we have lost so much already), protected from global jihad, China, North Korea, Iran and whoever else comes down the pike.

We are where we are because of a decade(s) of incompetent, wasteful government. Just look at the national debt if you are unsure. Look at the annual budget deficits, the number of people on welfare, food stamps etc. Look at the GDP growth (an anemic 2%). Crime is on the rise in our largest cities, there is discord everywhere.

He makes some valid comparisons, but as the author points out, they are not equal in magnitude or parallel in path. A few more differences he doesn't mention: While Weimar Germany lost faith in its financial institutions and in the effectiveness of its "liberal democracy," the Trump supporters today have lost faith in the checks and balances of their Democratic Republic. The US government didn't ALLOW the real-estate and financial collapse. It PRODUCED it. Executive branch direction to banks drove sub-prime lending. The US is not a "liberal democracy," if liberalism is "Hope and Change" and conservatism is "Status Quo." It was designed from day one to be stable...very difficult to implement large changes quickly...requiring super-majorities to create constitutional amendments. Almost the definition of a Conservative Democracy. A liberal democracy can be shifted to Fascism or Communism much more quickly and easily than a conservative democracy.