Referencing Weimar Germany for any reason besides “maybe parliamentary democracies should have first past the post rules” and “hyperinflation is bad” and “perhaps a rule that states the President can do whatever he wants if he thinks public order is in jeopardy is bad”

Weimar had a lot of issues! But the same year the Weimar constitution was established 15,000 Germans died in street fighting between right wing paramilitary groups and leftist extremists in NINE DAYS. It’s not comparable to ... anything going on right now.

The context of the fall of Weimar and the rise of Nazi Germany — the Treaty of Versailles, the prevalence of the “stabbed in the back myth,” massive hyperinflation, and of course :: stares at military :: — is very specific!