"Progressives should not make the same mistake that Ernst Thälmann made in 1932. The leader of the German Communist Party, Thälmann saw mainstream liberals as his enemies, and so the center and left never joined forces against the Nazis. Thälmann famously said that ‘some Nazi trees must not be allowed to overshadow a forest’ of social democrats, whom he sneeringly called ‘social fascists.’

After Adolf Hitler gained power in 1933, Thälmann was arrested. He was shot on Hitler’s orders in Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944."

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    2 months ago

    Let’s turn it around.

    Explain why me asking you to produce actual results is a ‘strawman.’

    You keep saying it, so you must have an idea of what it means.

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      You probably love to rail at Obamacare and point out that it was originally created by Mitt Romney.

      Maybe the ACA wasn’t perfect, but 40 million people have some health insurance who wouldn’t have had it without Obama and the Dems.

      I have never railed at Obamacare, nor do I point out that it was created by Romney. You spent the next several comments working off of that same false assumption.

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        Explain why me asking you to produce actual results is a ‘strawman.’

        No, I asked you to provide some actual results you’ve produced.

        I cited the ACA as an example of something that has produced results.

        You still haven’t shown anything like actual progress.