Another Republican link to the past
Kurt Schumacher, speaking in the Reichstag (German parliament) on February 23, 1932, referred to National Socialism (the Nazi’s) as “a continuous appeal to the inner swine in human beings,” unique in German history in its success in “ceaselessly mobilizing human stupidity.”
Quoted in Tony Judt, Postwar, p. 268 (material between the quoted phrases is from Judt).
The more things change ....
Doesn't this remind you of how Rove and the Republicans operate? Is Bush Hitler? Or are we the Germans, with our williness to accept a decline in democratic freedoms for no reason? There are more parallells between the Democratic party in 2006 and the ineffective Weimar politicians of the 30s than one would like.