Donald Trump and his allies are ramping up high-dollar fundraising efforts with less than two months to go until the Iowa caucus begins the 2024 Republican primary, as several major donors show signs of returning to the former president – including those who once called on him to exit the race.
Some observers say the changing view of big financial backers shows a recognition that because Republican voters are sticking with Trump amid his continued controversy and legal troubles, he remains a very real contender for the White House.
Trump is battling a slew of unprecedented criminal charges – all of which he denies – but remains the front-runner in polling.
At the same time, anti-Trump Republican donors have spent millions while scrambling to coalesce behind an alternative candidate to take on the former president and anti-Trump voters remain divided between a handful of challengers.
In Nazi Germany the capitalist class aligned with the fascists against leftists.
One could make a great case that this alliance is what pushed the Nazis to power.
Of course some of the wealthy had misgivings about the rabid anti-semitism being stirred up, but the amorality of capitalism demands profit over everything.
The flood of money in politics is destroying our democracy.
In the Weimar Republic, the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and the Nazi Party were at odds with each other, but there were instances of cooperation between them against the Social Democratic Party (SPD). The KPD viewed the SPD as a greater threat than the Nazis and adopted a policy of “Social-Fascism,” considering social democracy as the “left-wing of fascism” and targeting it even at the expense of fighting the Nazis[4]. This policy changed in 1935 when Stalin called for a “united front” between Communists, Social Democrats, and Liberals, but by then, Hitler had already risen to power[4]. The KPD’s response to the rise of the Nazis was influenced by various factors, including Soviet foreign policy requirements, the party’s Marxist-Leninist outlook, and the Weimar democratic society[5]. Despite occasional cooperation, the Communists and Nazis were fundamentally opposed, and any alliance between them was never complete or fully acknowledged[5].
Citations: [1] Communist Party of Germany - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Germany [2] Weimar Republic and Nazi Era in East German Perspective - JSTOR https://www.jstor.org/stable/4545834 [3] Communist and Fascist Revolutions in Europe | Revolutionary Contagion and International Politics | Oxford Academic https://academic.oup.com/book/43923/chapter/372382542 [4] How Communists in Germany Allied with Nazis to Destroy Democracy | War History Online https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/communists-allied-with-nazis.html [5] [PDF] THE KPD AND THE NSDAP: A STTJDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POLITICAL EXTREMES IN WEIMAR GERMANY, 1923-1933 BY DAVIS WILLIAM DAY https://etheses.lse.ac.uk/4102/3/Daycock__KPD-NSDAP-Weimar-Germany.pdf
Reminds of all the leftists out there telling people they’re not going to vote for Biden because the Gaza ceasefire didn’t come fast enough for them.
They’re likely trying to exert political influence on a candidate in a political campaign within the two party system framework.
You know, participating in the democratic process by tying the conditions of their votes to policies.
Otherwise you only have the party dictating the policy of their donors onto the voters.
I mean this the post SpeechNow and Citizens United decision American electoral process, afterall.