Trump and Hitler : the danger of running again - THREAD
In 1923, HITLER ATTEMPTED TO SEIZE GOVERNMENTAL POWER IN A FAILED COUP in Munich and was imprisoned for 5 years. In jail, he dictated the first volume of his autobiography and political manifesto Mein Kampf (My Struggle).
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After his early release in 1924, Hitler gained popular support by attacking the Treaty of Versailles and promoting pan-Germanism, anti-Semitism and anti-communism with charismatic oratory and Nazi propaganda. 
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By November 1932, THE NAZI PARTY HAD THE MOST SEATS in the German Reichstag BUT DIDN'T HAVE A MAJORITY. Thus, no party was able to support of a candidate for chancellor. Fmr Chancellor Franz von Papen persuaded the German President to appoint Hitler as chancellor in 1933. 
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Shortly after, the Reichstag passed the Enabling Act of 1933 which began the process of TRANSFORMING THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC INTO NAZI GERMANY, A ONE-PARTY DICTATORSHIP based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology of Nazism. 
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TODAY, TRUMP is almost the Platonic case of a prospective federal defendant who, if disposed of in the same way any of the rest of us would be, COULD DESTROY THE PROFESSIONAL FUTURES AND THE PERSONAL LIVES OF ANYONE WHO TAKES HIM ON. The "Big Lie" is a bait-and-switch.
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Meaning, our justice systems can indict, prosecute, and incarcerate citizens for countless statutory crimes. But they struggle to do so in a timely fashion—sometimes at all—if a defendant is rich, particularly if he’s also powerful and famous.
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The simple fact is that our criminal justice systems have no authority at all to bar someone from future office.
At a moment, Trump's popularity within the Republican Party remains well over 70% (?)
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In America, not 120 days ago, more than half think Trump is currently America’s rightful president; and access to legions of domestic terrorists likely to threaten and perhaps harm any prosecutor or juror who takes any adverse action against him.
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Trump has recourses no other federal defendant would have; for ex. by convincingly claiming that any prosecution of him is “political,” he can effortlessly marshal civilian supporters to intimidate federal prosecutors, investigators or law enforcement officials pursuing him.
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Per the Constitution, the body with the power to disqualify an elected official from holding future office is CONGRESS.whereas conviction for an act of bribery may be seen as an act of retribution and public accountability, disqualification from office is something else.
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We don’t require proof beyond a reasonable doubt to act in defense of national security or the public trust.
McConnell and Rubio hope WE won’t notice the bait-and-switch in all this. The Rs have placed an entire superstructure of red tape before the American people.
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Even if a court convicted Trump of an act of insurrection, any subsequent 14th Amendment vote in the House or Senate wouldn’t get votes from the 43 GOP senators or nearly 200 GOP House members who opposed Trump’s impeachment and conviction for incitement.
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WHY didn’t the Senate quickly move to to censure Trump for an act of insurrection, thereby triggering Section 3 of the 14th Amendment the moment Trump tries to run for office in the future?
WHY didn’t they argue that NOTHING precludes the Senate from disqualifying? 
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THE ANSWER IN EACH CASE IS THE SAME: when a peer of the nation’s richest and most powerful men and women engages in an act that any of the rest of us would be locked in a cage for, they tell the American people that the proper forum for accountability is a political one !
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THUS, WHAT HAPPENED WITH HITLER COULD VERY WELL HAPPEN WITH TRUMP.
He could try to run again...
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Sources : Wikipedia, Seth Abramson
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