Rand Paul, Republican nominee for Senate in Kentucky and all-around tea party uber-star, has a penchant for predicting the demise of the United States government and its replacement. And often, he’s used the failure of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Adolf Hitler’s fascist regime as an example to illustrate his point. It’s not that Paul thinks any particular politician alive today is Hitler — or even Hitler-like — but Paul’s reasonably sure that unless something changes soon, America’s financial desperation will put some sort of new Hitler-like regime just around the bend.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=120784