05-12-2023, 02:59 AM
(05-12-2023, 02:25 AM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:I'm tipping the people from the Ukraine would have a fairly certain view based on first hand experience.
And I'd share their view...but others would argue regarding the 'potential' for Trump.
But potential is just a guess, educated though it might be, and until such time as the opportunity arises and the potential is realised... it remains a guess.
That goes to this point.
(05-12-2023, 02:29 AM)LP link Wrote:I suppose the problem is the answer can vary dependant on when the question is asked, before his rise Hitler was spinning himself as a man of the people, the working class man's hero, afterwards not so much!
Do we see patterns of behaviour that are only really separated by where and when?
A whole range of conditions contributed to the rise of Nazism in Germany.
You could argue that some of those were externally imposed following the defeat in WW1.
But essentially, yes... it boils down to the 'wrong' person in the 'wrong' place at the 'wrong' time.

