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>FWIW, the Hilter comparison is quite a laugh. For a start, Hitler didn't win the Presidential election. Hindenburg did. Nor did Hitler's party win its elections. It lost twice, with fewer seats the second time around.

Here's what Wikipedia says.

>>Two successive federal elections left the Nazis as the largest party in the Reichstag and anti-democratic parties in control of a majority of its seats. Under this political climate, Hindenburg reluctantly appointed Hitler as Chancellor of Germany in January 1933.