Dan Gardner at PastPresentFuture:
Billie Eilish’s anti-ICE message at the Grammies — “no one is illegal on stolen land” — reminded me of Weimar Germany. For a complex reason.
I’ve never been a fan of this-is-like-Germany-before-the-Nazis references because they are almost universally overwrought or misinformed. But Weimar Germany had a fascism problem. We have a fascism problem. Most people in Weimar Germany were not fascists. Most people today are not fascists. Yet Weimar Germany succumbed to fascism when the Nazis took power in 1933.
It seems reasonable now that we include Weimar Germany among our analytical tools.
So I’m going to review some basic history of Weimar Germany. Then I’m going to show how Billie Eilish’s comment is typical of a stupid mistake many people on the left are making. They aren’t the first to make this mistake. Many on the left in Weimar Germany made the same mistake, and in doing so, they did something they absolutely did not intend.
They helped create the Nazi dictatorship.
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