@jrredho
#WeimarRepublic #DEhistory #ThirdReich
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This is, in principle, correct, but the context is important:
1) In a (pluralistic) #ParliamentaryDemocracy, a #CoalitionGovernment is the norm, as they reflect society much better than #WinnerTakesAll/ #FirstPastThePost systems (e. g. US, UK.)
2.) At the beginning of the #GreatDepression, in 1930, the last such government collapsed on the vital question of unemployment-insurance reform:
@realSiegfried
Excited to present at @dh2025 today with my talk “What is Democracy? Scalable Reading Newspapers of the Weimar Republic.”
My project combines digital methods and close reading to analyze how democracy was discussed in historical newspapers from Weimar Germany - a scalable-reading workflow. Looking forward to the discussion and the other talks in session "SP-34".
4:00pm (GMT+1)
https://shorturl.at/4xZPv
**#DH2025 #DigitalHistory** **#DigitalHumanities** **#DH** **#WeimarRepublic**
@jrredho
This is not quite correct:
As I've sumed up in my thread on the 1933 elections of the late #WeimarRepublic...
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110097936019841276
...the #NSDAP did not *yet* achieve a majority in the final (somewhat) free elections of February, 1933.
They did so ever after abolishing #Democracy in the November elections: the electorate could only vote for a "unity list: "
Here is a chart of their election results:
@xankarn
#Trumpism is the #US mutation of #Fascism
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"The U.S. under MAGA has gone fascist."
I agree, which is why I wrote in my thread, *The Clear Shape of Things To Come During #Trump's 2nd Term In Office* in Nov. 2024,
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In short, this is a mostly legal coup..., the outcome can roughly be compared to the 1st #Reichstag election of 1933 in the #WeimarRepublic, but (rather skillfully in contrast, I must, alas, admit)...without the mass bullying and violence
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Timely #review article:
Frank Biess, Weimar in the World: Transnational and Global Perspectives on Germany’s First Democracy, in: The Journal of Modern History 97 (2025) 2, https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/735412
Concluding that the “contradictory crosscurrents of Weimar’s
global situatedness sound rather familiar in the context of our own predicament at
the beginning of the twenty-first century.”
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It might look like political assassinations. That would take the US down an even darker path, as during the #WeimarRepublic.
But is it truly as it seems?
"“Law enforcement found a hit list in the #Minnesota suspect’s car that contained nearly 70 names, a law enforcement official briefed on the matter told CNN.
The names included abortion providers, pro-abortion rights advocates, and lawmakers in...
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/minnesota-shootings-manhunt-06-14-25?cid=ios_app
They are there because groups like #labourtogether and the heroically misnamed #labourtowin saw them as useful auxiliaries against their #corbynista opponents - just as the latter earlier on had made use of some pretty unpleasant groupuscules themselves. History is littered with cases where supposed auxiliaries get out of hand - the #freikorps in the early #weimarrepublic being the classic example!
@mistergeezy
Watch this handy video for where the US is willingly headed 
Its mind boggling far how this has gone
