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He may not be a tankie, but all his best friends are, such as Milne, etc. If you note my grammatical construction I did not call him a tankie.

Regarding the Weimar Republic, I don’t know the history So your analogy is wasted on me, but to suggest the Tories are proto-Nazis seems absurd to me.

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You should read about it. The Tories may not be proto-fascist, but the willingness of the entire political system to compromise towards the right is what meant that fascist uprisings were successful in the 1930s and not when they tried earlier (it was shut down by the KPD and SPD prior to it)

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