This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I am Gaius, John Bachelor, and Dramaticus is here.

And Dramaticus and I are going to endeavor not to laugh out loud.

When we do just a few minutes to just lay down on the table some what

inconvenient truth is that fair dramatic And so, when you speak to Europe these days, and I do often, well-meaning people who read

the American media via German media, French media, English media, Italian media.

It's all translated and then they see the video which also has subtitles.

Often they're video which also has subtitles. Often their voice to me when I speak to them, what's

going on? Is Trump going to win? Has America become a and then they have various terms for it but they

they don't actually use the word fascist but it's close to it and I don't have an

easy answer for them.

So I say it's five months of the election or six months to the election.

And we'll see.

I back away.

But I know that they're being they're being exposed to a media that is

decided the narrative is 32-33. Just a couple of facts, Germanicus, for your comment. The NSDAP, the National

Socialist of 1932, in the election of July 31st, 1932, the Weimar election,

won 37% of the Reichstag, 230 seats.

That was the best they'd ever done.

Previous Best was 107. Before that, they had 12.

What was going on at the same time was that in August of 1932, the Dow Jones average hit the absolute bottom of the Great Depression,

40.22.

So there was a global crisis, not a Weimar crisis. And the German voters turning out at 80%, were looking

...