By: Peter D Gardner

Peter D Gardner
Sun, 07 Dec 2025 23:02:10 +0000

In reply to Jerry Owen.

I know it is passe to mention the man with the little moustache but his taking power was sort of democratic. He never received more than 37% of the vote in a free and open national election, but he argued that 37% represented 75% of 51%, and demanded political power. It was the political calculus by which the Nazi leader disabled, then dismantled, the Weimar Republic. Hitler exploited his 37% to gridlock legislative processes, to cudgel or crush the political opposition, and ultimately to undermine the country’s democratic structures. (Source: Time magazine)

Just remember Starmer’s Gang received a lower vote at 33.7% than Adolf did.