Democracy threatened by democratically elected leaders - eviltoast

Narendra Modi is a democratically elected leader, but his image is that of a leader who decimated opposition and dissent — in Parliament or on university campuses.

  • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Two further tidbits:

    • The NSDAP already had falling results in 1932 (down to 33% from 37), and the 1933 elections weren’t free (47%).
    • The enabling act wasn’t really passed legally. They had to arrest SPD and KPD MPs to get the necessary 2/3rds majority, ignoring the quorum.

    On the whole they kept up the appearance of the whole thing being legal as far as they could because, well, they could: Why throw away the appearance of legitimacy when you don’t have to, Nazis are idiots but not in that way.