Hitler wrote the script. Trump is following it.

I know. That's strong. But it's true. The following is an excerpt from a Substack piece written by Dean Blundell. Consider:

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In November 1923, Hitler tried to overthrow the government by force. The Beer Hall Putsch. It failed. People died. He was arrested, tried for high treason, and convicted.

And then Germany’s legal system did the single dumbest thing in the history of legal systems. A sympathetic Bavarian court gave him the minimum sentence, five years in a cushy “fortress confinement” where he wore street clothes, entertained a parade of admirers, and dictated Mein Kampf to Rudolf Hess. Then the court paroled him after nine months. On December 20, 1924, they let him walk out of Landsberg Prison, a convicted traitor, back into public life, because the men in charge decided he’d learned his lesson and wasn’t a threat anymore.

A guy who tried to violently overthrow the government. Convicted. Released early. Treated as a martyr by his movement. Returned to politics more famous than when he went in, having learned exactly one lesson: don’t seize power with guns. Seize it with ballots, courts, and paperwork, then burn the system down from inside it.

Tell me you don’t feel that one in your chest, America.

So how long did it take from the prison gate to absolute power? Here’s the ledger. Write it down.

The Consolidation Ledger

• December 20, 1924: Released from Landsberg after nine months of a five-year treason sentence.

• February 1925: Refounds the Nazi party. Decides on the “legal” path to power.

• 1928: The party gets 2.6 percent of the national vote. A joke. A fringe. Everyone relaxes.

• 1930: Depression hits. 18.3 percent. Second largest party in Germany.

• July 1932: 37 percent. Largest party in the country, without ever winning a majority.

• January 30, 1933: Conservative elites, convinced they can control him, hand him the chancellorship in a coalition. He has exactly two other Nazis in cabinet. The establishment congratulates itself.

• February 27, 1933: The Reichstag burns. Within a day, emergency decrees suspend civil liberties, free press, and habeas corpus. Political opponents are rounded up.

• March 22, 1933: Dachau opens, ten miles from where I’m typing this. The first camp. Built for his own citizens. Communists, social democrats, journalists, union leaders. The regime published the arrests proudly. Punishment of political enemies wasn’t hidden. It was the point.

• March 23, 1933: The Enabling Act. Parliament votes to make itself irrelevant. Legislating by decree, fully legal, rubber-stamped.

• July 14, 1933: All other parties banned. One-party state.

• June 30, 1934: The Night of the Long Knives. He murders the rivals inside his own movement. The purge always comes home. Ask anyone who was loyal to this current American administration eighteen months ago and got fed to the base for a news cycle.

• August 2, 1934: Hindenburg dies. Hitler merges the presidency and chancellorship. The army swears an oath to him personally. Done.

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You should read the entire piece:
“How Long Does It Take? Day 3 - Dachau Concentration Camp For ‘Undesirables.” Sound Familiar?”

Find it here: 

https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/how-long-did-it-take-day-3-dachau

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