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“Nationalism Will Run Roughshod Over Democracy”: What Can Nazi Germany Tell Us About Trump’s GOP?

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This week Inside the Hive welcomes historian Peter Fritzsche, author of to help separate fact from exaggeration on the increasingly pressing question of how much Donald Trump’s GOP resembles the Nazis of the early 1930s. As Trump attacks democratic norms and undermines the electoral process, and Attorney General William Barr stokes fear of “a socialist path” if Trump loses, historians are hearing distressing echoes of Adolph Hitler’s rise, from the fearmongering demonization of the left to the threats of street violence and military force against enemies both real and imagined. One difference: “A white ethnic America is much more important in Trump’s campaign than the vision of an Aryanized Germany was in Hitler’s electoral campaigns,” says Fritzsche. The MAGA conception of America, he adds, “means there are villains who have undone America, but now there are the virtuous who can remake America and ‘make it great again.’ I call it ‘muscular melodramatic populism’”—the same phenomenon that brought Hitler to power. iTunes user? Just tap to listen to Inside the Hive at your convenience. And don’t forget to subscribe.More Great Stories From Vanity Fair— Melania Trump Sounds in Stephanie Winston Wolkoff’s New Book— Amid Protests and Pandemic— How Trump’s Handling of White Supremacists Could Create — Ashley Etienne May Be Against Trump— What’s the Reality Behind ?— , According to Josie Duffy Rice— The Pandemic Is Creating in the Hamptons— From the Archive: The Perks and Perils of Being Looking for more? for our daily Hive newsletter and never miss a story. is a special correspondent at Vanity Fair. is a national correspondent at Vanity Fair.The freshest-and most essential-updates from Washington, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley.

This week Inside the Hive welcomes historian Peter Fritzsche, author of to help separate fact from exaggeration on the increasingly pressing question of how much Donald Trump’s GOP resembles the Nazis of the early 1930s. As Trump attacks democratic norms and undermines the electoral process, and Attorney General William Barr stokes fear of “a socialist path” if Trump loses, historians are hearing distressing echoes of Adolph Hitler’s rise, from the fearmongering demonization of the left to the threats of street violence and military force against enemies both real and imagined. One...

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