http://spectator.org/articles/62107/obama%E2%80%99s-1930s-we%E2%80%99re-1937Obama’s 1930s: We’re at 1937
Soon enough the Iran nuclear talks will become a replay of Munich 1938.
By John C. Wohlstetter – 3.19.15
Many pundits have drawn parallels between the last decade and the 1930s. Though the precise sequence of events eight decades ago is not being repeated, the kinds of events that transpired in the years 1933 to 1937 have been repeated in broad brushstroke during the Obama years. And events of 1938 to 1941 appear on the horizon as increasingly likely to recur. Our most leftist president ever is following the course predicted by Marx’s aphorism, “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce.”
1933. On January 30, capping a year of complex intra-party intrigues, President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler Chancellor. In March 5 the Nazis won a near majority in the German parliamentary elections. They first formed a coalition with the socialist German National People’s Party to gain a near super majority in the Reichstag. Then they brought the radical Catholic Center Party into the alliance. This gave the coalition 73 percent, more than the 67 percent supermajority needed to revise Germany’s Basic Law.
Fast forward to the events of 2011 through late 2013. After Egypt’s Facebook Revolution ended three decades of Pharaonic rule under Hosni Mubarak, the Muslim Brotherhood won a narrow majority in the June 2012 runoff.
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