[ben_w]

While this is true, that he was in charge of the party which won more votes than any other in an election is definitely something I count as “winning an election”.

While I am also concerned about the breakdown of political discourse in the USA (and, to a lesser degree, the UK), I don’t think it’s reached the level of late Weimar Republic.

[pandaman]

It's fine that you count somebody doing something other than winning an election as winning an election, that's why I asked the original poster what did he mean by that.

And, in the same sense, we do not have the same level of polarization: we don't close the opposition newspapers, only websites/social network accounts, so definitely not the same, we don't ban parties yet (just harass them through selective law enforcement and impede their ability to raise funds) and only one party so far has the enforcers (coincidentally borrowing the name and attributes of the one of KPD from 1920s). Also, economically, we have much lower inflation.