{"id":1728838,"date":"2022-11-07T20:04:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T01:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1728838"},"modified":"2022-11-07T20:05:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T01:05:24","slug":"ben-shapiro-discusses-how-democracies-collapse-hitler-was-let-in-through-the-front-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ben-shapiro-discusses-how-democracies-collapse-hitler-was-let-in-through-the-front-door\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Shapiro Discusses How Democracies Collapse: Hitler Was Let In \u2018Through The Front Door\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fben-shapiro-discusses-how-democracies-collapse-hitler-was-let-in-through-the-front-door%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1728838&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Daily Wire co-founder and author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/author\/ben-shapiro\">Ben Shapiro<\/a> discussed how centralized power and other factors are real threats to liberal democracies, citing historical collapses during a long-ranging podcast with host Lex Fridman, released on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Shapiro emphasized the threat when Fridman asked about lessons we could learn from Adolf Hitler taking power in the 20th century.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first thing I think people ought to recognize about Hitler taking power is that the power had been centralized in the government before Hitler took it,\u201d the \u201cRight Side of History\u201d author outlined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if you actually look at the history of Nazi Germany, the Weimar Republic effectively collapsed, the power had been centralized in the chancellory, and really under Hindenburg for a couple of years before that,\u201d Shapiro, 38, explained. \u201cSo it was only a matter of time until someone who was bad grabbed the power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe struggle between the Reds and the Browns in pre-Nazi Germany led to this kind of up-spiraling of radical sentiment that allowed Hitler in through the front door, not through the back door. He was elected,\u201d the podcast host said.<\/p>\n<p>Shapiro added that \u201cthere\u2019s no question\u201d the Communists could have taken power at the time, noting that such a takeover could have led to a different sort of atrocity. \u201cObviously the Communists in Soviet Russia at exactly this time were committing the Holodomor,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were very few good guys in terms of good parties \u2014 the moderate parties were being dragged by the radicals into alliance with them to prevent the worst case scenario from the other guy,\u201d the conservative explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt really does speak to how does a democracy break down,\u201d Shapiro asserted. \u201cI mean the 20s Weimar Republic, which was a very liberal democracy, how does a liberal democracy break down into complete Fascism and then into genocide?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Franz von Papen, the second-to-last Chancellor of the Republic before Hitler, was \u201cstumping for Hitler\u201d even though he opposed him, Shapiro explained. \u201cPapen thought that Hitler was a radical and a nut job, but he also thought that Hitler, being a buffoon as he saw it, was going to essentially be usable by the right forces in order to \u2026 prevent the Communists from taking power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s easy to kind of fall into the rock\u2019em sock\u2019em robots that eventually could, theoretically, allow you to support somebody who\u2019s truly frightening and hideous in order to stop somebody who you think is more frightening and hideous,\u201d he asserted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou see this kind of language, by the way, now predominating almost all over the Western world: \u2018My political enemy is an enemy of democracy, my political enemy is going to end the Republic, my political enemy is going to be the person who destroys the country we live in, and so that person has to be stopped by any means necessary. And that\u2019s dangerous stuff,\u201d the author warned.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@benshapiro<\/a>: &#8220;The best protection against evil is recognizing that it lies in every human\u2026The polarization of politics\u2026makes it very easy to\u2026theoretically\u2026support someone who is truly frightening and hideous in order to stop someone who is more frightening and hideous.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1l7inRhVmJ\">pic.twitter.com\/1l7inRhVmJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDailyWire\/status\/1589763073573015554?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2022<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Wire co-founder and author Ben Shapiro discussed how centralized power and other factors are real threats to liberal democracies, citing historical collapses during a long-ranging podcast with host Lex Fridman, released on Monday. 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