Stabbed in the Back for a Lost Cause
The similarities between Trump’s election narrative mirrors both Nazi and Confederate rhetorics
3 min readNov 10, 2020
The Nazis came to power, in no small part, because of a conspiracy theory that is known to History as the Stab-in-the-back myth. Not only did the Nazi promote and distribute the theory, but they also made it an integral part of their lore.
