Ted-Ed has the video How did Hitler rise to power? by Alex Gendler and Anthony Hazard.

Decades after the fall of the Third Reich, it feels impossible to understand how Adolf Hitler, the tyrant who orchestrated one of the largest genocides in human history, could ever have risen to power in a democratic country. So how did it happen, and could it happen again? Alex Gendler and Anthony Hazard dive into the history and circumstances that allowed Hitler to become Führer of Germany.

I can’t attest to the detailed historical accuracy of everything in this video, but it sounds about right from what I have learned from other sources. There are a few details that add to what I already knew.

Policy.Mic has the article Blaming millennials for Trump — 99 problems but the kids ain’t one – by Scott Goodstein.

While I’m not a millennial, my firm Revolution Messaging specializes in youth voter outreach and helped Bernie Sanders win a record share of youth votes in the primary — more than Clinton and Trump combined. I also ran social media, developed young voter materials and assisted with artist and musician outreach for President Obama’s record-breaking 2008 campaign. So I was surprised, and very concerned, when Clinton’s campaign and their independent coalition leaders all brushed me off. Her team seemed to care little about learning from Sen. Sanders’ successes and about how his tactics could be used in the general election.
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The campaign’s arrogance extended to their digital advertising strategy as well. Throughout the primary, our team was shocked that the Clinton campaign failed to match Bernie Sanders’ digital advertising efforts.
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Let’s be honest, social network posting and commenting is the modern day version of knocking on your friend’s door. It is the medium that allows a campaign to begin a conversation with undecided voters, bring them into the discussion and move them up a ladder of engagement. Hillary’s outreach efforts should have been focused on establishing real connections wherever they may be, and for young voters, those connections are online.
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If Democrats want to get serious about reaching millennials for the 2018 midterms and the 2020 election, we will need to learn lessons from 2016, and quickly. Today’s generation of young voters are civic-minded and passionate, and they are the future of the Democratic party and the progressive movement. It’s time we started treating them like it.

Given recent pronouncements by the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Harry Reid, I have full confidence that the Democratic Party leaders have learned nothing, and will learn nothing. They can be defeated even more soundly in 2018. Let us figure out what we want to replace them with. This time no snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Courage of our convictions is what we need.

Truth Out (one of the fake “fake” news sources) has the article On Pivoting: Ideas on Organizing During a Trump Administration.

I’m defining a “strategic pivot” as a change in organizing strategies or tactics to ensure a community’s survival or to increase the impact or reach of its political vision. In this moment we know that systems of oppression are historical and deeply embedded within US culture and institutions. White supremacy, misogyny, ableism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia and xenophobia are not new. What is new is that we’re encountering an incoming administration that is more transparently oppressive and violent than many of us have seen in our lifetimes.

Naked Capitalism has the interesting article The Fatal Flaw in Macroprudential Policy: It Ignores Political Risk.

In contrast, the macropru policymaker is faced with a complex, ill-defined policy domain in which there is not a clear consensus on either the problem or the objective. The indicators at this policymaker’s disposal are often imprecise and conflicting. The surgical implementation tools are often ineffective, and the powerful implementation tools are too blunt. Macropru also tends to result in clearly identifiable winners and losers, perhaps even more so than monetary policy. As a result, it is subject to intensive lobbying and political pressure.

This adversely affects both the legitimacy of the macropru regulator, and the regulator’s reputation for impartiality.

I have a hard time figuring out who or what is a macropru regulator in the system that prevails in the USA. In my imagination, such a “regulator” would decide on budget deficits and fiscal policy in a wider sense. There is no such purely technocratic entity in our system of governance. Every time I try to imagine what one would look like, I come up against political (and practical) roadblocks to creating one.

So we are left to speculate on how great things would be if there were a technocratic solution divorced from politics. As far as I know there is no democratically run government of any significance that has figured out how to do this.