Hitler was a narcissist obsessed with power and hatred for anyone who disagreed with him. He excoriated people in meetings, newspapers, and the new mass media; Radio. Much of his communication to the people was lies and total fantasies. Other people in power dismissed him as a clown who had little chance of winning power in an election. The government became infiltrated by Hitler’s converts.

            He covertly directed anti-government anarchist groups to subvert the rule of law. When Nazi Party had reached about a third of the German Reichstag, he tried for a power grab and lost. When the Party started to lose seats, opposition people started to die.

            Hitler ultimately got into power by making pacts with other politicians and then breaking those pacts to gain more power with other pacts. Finally he was made chancellor and the people he felt weren’t loyal to him were permanently retired. The military and everyone else had to swear allegiance to him.

            One addition to the “Big Lie” he needed was an internal enemy. He made the Communist Party into an enemy of the people. After eliminating them under the guise that the Reichstag building fire was started by Communists, he made Jews and other ethnics’ enemies of the Aryan people.

            This was all done in the first few years of the 1930s. Does any of this sound like the last half of the twenty-teens?