The Weimar Republic fell because the advocates of democracy in Germany were too timid to fight back against the thuggish tactics of Hitler's storm troopers. They passed the "enabling act" after the Reichstag fire (read terrorist act) that gave him virtually omnipotent power to "protect the homeland."
The right wing is right about one thing: the Democrats in Congress don't have the will or the wherewithal to put up a fight for the Constitution. Bullying works against a caucus without a backbone.
Hitler's power was legally granted to him by those who thought that the "homeland" faced grave threats.
The gravest threat, of course, that the German homeland faced was Hitler himself.
That is an analogy to Congress's abject surrender to Bush that is, indeed, worth repeating.
We've said many times that the Busheviks have no sense of history and thus are doomed to repeat it. I think we've been wrong all along.
I think now that they've assiduously studied and put into practice Hitler's methods of attaining and expanding power. They sure seem to be doing it by the book, and they're too stupid to have thought it up all over again by themselves.
Update:
WaPo op-ed on how they pulled off their latest "Reichstag Fire" moment.
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