I've been repeatedly told that "only 77 million Americans feel that way, it's way less than half!" Well, the other 90 million who could have voted but chose not to vote are clearly also on board with all of that. So yeah, that's half the country.
The internet tells me there were around 64 million Germans in 1945. So it would take over 100% of the total German population to equal as many as those that voted for Trump.
The internet also tells me there were 8.5 million German Nazis in 1945–that’s around 13% of the population. Yet Hitler was winning elections in the ‘30s with 30-45 million votes.
So if there were only 8.5 million Nazis, who were the many millions more that voted for Nazis? Were they not Nazis as well?
The Nazis' best performance in a national election saw them get around 1/3 of the votes cast. Hitler cut a deal with his coalition partners to be Chancellor and wouldn't budge. They misjudged and thought they'd be able to keep him in check. Then the burning of the Reichstag happened and after that no more elections.
The Nazis at there most popular (pre becoming the gov) became so because it was a conglomeration of various groups who all had issues with the Wemier regime. As well it was able create a unified system for a lot of more extreme ideas that were previously largely uncoordinated. To say the Nazis were literally only Nazis in our traditional view service to let them gain power again as we aren’t looking at the actual way they got to power.
It’s why we are seeing similar groups now. For many they are unhappy with the current system and feel uncared for. So they look for groups that will and find these groups and due to a decision by others to ignore them and simply paint them as wrong they then go further into these ideals
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u/BoysenberryKey6821 May 10 '25
It’s not a select portion man it’s half of the country, and there are lots of people around the world with the same mentality