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The Democrats, social media, and the media are using the Capitol riot as the Nazis used the burning of the Reichstag -- to crush all opposition.

The parallels to 1933 are precise. And most good Americans are keeping silent, just as did most Germans.

On March 23, the Reichstag passed the Enabling Act, the partner piece of legislation to the February 28 Decree for the Protection of People and State. The Enabling Act assigned all legislative power to Hitler and his ministers, thus securing their ability to control the political apparatus. When President Hindenburg died in August 1934, Hitler wrote a new law that combined the offices of president and chancellor. It was sanctioned by a national plebiscite. When the German parliamentary building went up in flames, Hitler harnessed the incident to seize power : It was the canary in the politi...

  Karl Marx once remarked: “History repeats itself. First time as tragedy and second time as farce.” Many decades ago, in 1933, at the beginning of the Nazi era, the Nazis organized what was later proven to be a ploy. They staged an arson attack on the Reichstag building—home of the German parliament. In order to make their ploy look legitimate, they decided to try this case in a German court. This infamous trial became known in history as “The Reichstag Fire Trial.” The Nazis alleged that a Dutch communist Marius Van der Lubbe who set the Reichstag building was a member of the Com...

America needs a strong center-right to prevent another Trump We can’t spend every four years wondering if this is the end of democracy. The two-party system as it stands won't lead the country to real change.Anjali Nair / MSNBC; Getty Images Dec. 28, 2020, 6:46 PM UTC Let’s begin with a fact: The Republican Party as we know it is tarnished and overrun with elements of the far-right. The party’s elites have been courting and harnessing these elements for decades. I honestly don’t know if the GOP can be saved at this point. But as the Trump era fades, the left can’t erase the damage d...