Yo, correct me if I am wrong please, but didn’t Hitler rise to power because he promised to fix the German economy and people really liked that so they looked past everything else he was doing??? Like exactly what’s happening in America right now???
So many people said they voted for Trump, put a truly evil person in power, because he said he’d fix the economy, and a little voice in my head is going, “Isn’t that what happened with fucking Hitler??”
But I’ve seen no one point that out so maybe I’m miss remembering???????
Hitler actually did tariffs as well! He had very similar ultranationalist economic policies as trump, such as self-sufficiency, tariffs, allowing cartels and monopolies to rein supreme at the expense of small businesses. Though, Hitler had a larger emphasis on slave labor that was supplied by the concentration camps and the incarcerated population. The United States does use its prisoners for what basically amounts to slave labor, though, but not nearly at those levels.
Hitler, also worked with big technology names like Siemens Volkswagen and Philips, though Volkswagen was founded during his reign.
But Hitler and his advisors weren’t that dumb, so they used price controls, wage controls, rent controls, etc. To keep things in check.
Oh, and Hitler totally ruined the German economy, btw