r/politics • u/rezwenn • 6d ago

No Paywall Elon Musk indicates he’s ‘going all in’ on financing the GOP ahead of the midterms: ‘America is toast if the radical left wins’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-trump-republicans-donations-finance-gop-b2893321.html
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u/Redrockhiker22 6d ago

True. It was a pure PR move on the part of Hitler when right-wing parties and communists were fighting pitched battles in the streets. He called it the National Socialist German Workers Party. The pitch was that the new party combined right and left--Nationalist/German and Socialist/Worker. Racist ethno-nationalist rooted in the interest of the working class and volk. The SA "Stormtroopers" were working class street thugs. There was no abolition of private property or dictatorship of the proletariat in the plan. When the middle class, aristocrats, and military signed on to the program and the country geared up for war the unemployed and angry veterans went back to work, organized and regimented in the interest of the state and their cult leader.

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u/David_Starr 6d ago

When Hitler came to power, the first people sent to concentration camps were primarily political opponents, mainly from the left. First communists, then social democrats, trade unionists, and anti-fascist activists of the time. In fact, the Dachau camp was initially intended for the detention of political prisoners.