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In reply to the discussion: Yes DU trends to an older audience. [View all]wnylib
(21,903 posts)Holocaust Jews. Read it again. The OP specifically puts its statement about Nazis in the context of what is happening in the US today. Today's political setting in the US is parallel to the setting in Germany when Nazis were just beginning to develop political power, but were not yet in full control of the country. People who first criticized them were from an older generation who had experienced the Kaiser's rule, the loss of WWI, and the development of a constitutional government. They did not want to experience again the chaos of unruly mobs and thugs that had existed after the defeat of Germany in WWI. They did not want a return to militarism in Germany. They were ridiculed and ignored as stuffy old people who had no useful advice to the "new, modern Germans." There were even Old Guard conservatives who preferred the old monarchy over the Weimar Republic who agreed with the critics of the rising Nazi party.
You are comparing the wrong periods in Germany and the US. You are referring to the Holocaust, which did not begin until the Nazis had absolute power in Germany. The OP specifically states the current political situation in the US, which is parallel to the growing power of Nazis in Germany, BEFORE they had the absolute power to begin the Holocaust.