[dmz]

I will assume that your sequence of events is accurate.
How does that in any way change the point that I was making, that when a political apparatus takes control rather than the people, bad things happen?

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I believe that if you are going to make historical arguments, your facts (which are easily verifiable) should be beyond reproach.

Yours were not. And when part of one’s argument is less than accurate, it calls the conclusions into question.

/ history nerd mode

[Chainmail]

Ah yes, the “baby with the bath water” approach..

I am well familiar with that view. Unfortunately, my analogy of the rise of Hitler and the Colorado delegate appointment process pertains despite my flaws in chronology. Hitler achieved complete control not because of his popular election but because of the Nazi party getting a majority of Reichstag members and back room deals to get the chancellorship.

Where party rules overrun the choices of the voters, the party is following the example of the National Socialists.