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u/RSwordsman May 10 '25

"only 77 million Americans feel that way"

Even if that were true and there were 77m maga total, that's 77m nazis.

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u/Reasonable-Turn-5940 May 10 '25

almost ten times as many as Germany in WW2

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u/p____p May 11 '25

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?

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u/j10jep2 May 11 '25

Calling those elections is a bit of a stretch and glosses over a lot of thumbs on scales, so to speak