Bill's Comments

We are all wrong about the motives of our glorious President. Remember what he has said in the past and is doing now, and compare to this quote from Lee Harris, The Suicide of Reason:

After the failed Munich putsch, Hitler resolved never again to try to seize state power by force. Instead, the Nazis elected to follow a policy designed to make the Weimar system incapable of governing through normal political channnels. Just make the system unworkable; make parliament unable to handle crises; force the government to govern through emergency enabling acts; compel the head of state to assume more and more dictatorial powers--do all these things, before long a situation is created in which liberal politics is no longer an option. At this critical juncture, the people, in desperation, begin to seek an alternative to the clogged and deadlocked machinery of the parliamentary system.....

Had Hitler's aim been to gain power within the Weimar system, his approach would have been utterly irrational; but his aim was to destroy the system completely. [emphasis added, bk]

Argue the details all you want, the pattern is there.