Hitler was NOT Elected

Then there's the notion that winning an election automatically makes a candidate the right/correct choice. If that were true, everyone today owes Hitler an apology.

Robert Kirby, Salt Lake Tribune

 

Adolf Hitler was Austrian and never won an election to a German political office.  He had renounced his Austrian citizenship in 1925 but did not gain German citizenship until 1932.  He could not legally run for office in Germany throughout the 1920s and instead became a party boss.  In 1932, he ran for president and lost.  However, the lead vote winner, Paul von Hindenburg, only received 49% of the vote, leading to a run off.  In the runoff, Hitler lost again but his strong showing led President Hindenburg to reluctantly appoint him as chancellor.  Hindenburg was in his 80s and died in August, 1934.  During his time as Chancellor, Hitler had already set about intimidating and crushing opposition parties.  With Hindenburg's death, there was nothing to stop Hitler from declaring himself Fuhrer of Germany.  Later elections offered only Nazi members as candidates for the Reichstag.  Hitler was not elected, and not re-elected.  At best, prior to his seizing power, his party held 43% of the seats in the Reichstag and made common cause with other parties to get legislation to further empower Hitler.  The other parties were abolished once Hitler had the powers he needed.

 

Enough with the Hitler nonsense.  There are plenty of American Presidents that took actions that Trump is taking.  How about comparing him to them?  Obama banned travel from Iraq, Carter banned travel from Iran.  It was okay then but wrong now.  Truman and Eisenhower deported lots of illegal immigrants.  FDR had Russian agents throughout his administration!  President Tyler had a wife who was 30 years his junior.  No need to make a Hitler analogy when past president's fit the bill.