Would most Tea Party supporters be Nazi voters in the Weimar Republic?

[Lief 🗽]

Yeah, I think that's pretty obvious.

[Lief 🗽]

No. The people who were drawn to the Nazis were concerned about high unemployment, income inequality and lack of opportunity.

The Tea Party likes all three of those things.

The Tea Party opposes all those things, they just think those things are the fault of illegal immigrants, big government, and the president's Kenyan Socialist policies.

[Lief 🗽]

The question is stupid and the subsequent discussion hasn't been much better. The Tea Party is a very American thing and trying to place it in a Weimar context is just...I hardly know what to say.

And, yes, it is ironic that Lief and BRTD are probably among the people most likely in this thread to have supported the Nazis back in those days.

[Lief 🗽]

Hawks, law & order, anti-immigration/ anti-Muslim (but not necessarily racist), pro-gun, small government, regionalist /"state rights", protectionist, anti gay marriage (typically rural / small-town/ agrarian) -> DNVP (some defection to NSDAP after 1928)

Socially concerned / marginalised evangelicals, nationalist, anti-immigration/ anti-Muslim, anti gay marriage especially from regions with a historic (social-)democratic lean, plus some social-economic utopians with an otherwise nationalist / anti-immigrant outlook (libertarians?) -> NSDAP

Sounds like the Tea Party to me.