Last October, when the rest of us couldn't conceive of Trump the Nominee, let alone Trump the President, my colleague and former Cracked writer Adam Brown predicted he'd win, and predicted that his presidency would be, in a word, Hitlerian:
I still don't think that's likely. But then again, I didn't think any of this could happen. So in the interest of being prepared, I dove into history books about the rise of the Third Reich to try to build a hypothetical road map to American Fascism. When Hitler rose to power, Germany was still one of the wealthiest, best-educated nations on earth, and the success of his campaign came from directly targeting the millions of out-of-work Germans who had been devastated by the stock market crash in America (the Great Depression affected the entire world, you see) by promising them jobs and a better economy. Sound familiar? If it happens here like it happened there, here's how it'll start ...
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