Popular accounts of Nazism often claim that Hitler rose to power democratically. But, historian Richard J. Evans argues, German fascism relied on armed militias, made up of disaffected veterans inspired by antisemitism, to crush communists and socialists.
Looking back at recent elections, you’d be tempted to say the last year was not a bad one at all for liberal democracy, or even that far-right populism might be in decline. That would be a shortsighted conclusion and a dangerous one.
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