What Democrats fighting Trump should learn from Germany's failure to stop Hitler

What Democrats fighting Trump should learn from Germany's failure to stop Hitler

In the final years of the Weimar Republic, the German left was paralyzed by ideological divisions, by a failure to persuade broad swathes of the populace that it was capable of guiding the country out of its economic and domestic turmoil, and to neutralize the snowballing popular appeal of a budding despot — Adolf Hitler. Today, the American left faces a similarly perilous moment. Since Donald Trump began his second term in office, the Democrati…