• gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Exactly, there was an interruption in government and policies there that the 21st century US didn’t have. Trump is a continuation of Bush (e.g. the president who founded ICE) where Hitler was a reaction to the reaction to Wilhelm.

    • Thomas@discuss.tchncs.de
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      Yes, different governments (forms of), but still some parallels like militarism or choice of allies and enemies during their respective world wars.

      Maybe a better analogy than the German emperor would have been the last president of the Weimar republic before Hitler: Paul von Hindenburg