"When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?" Attributed to JM Keynes ? https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/22/keynes-change-mind/#more-2512
"War is Hell!" - William Tecumseh Sherman

It takes only a few moments to change one's mind completely, so I have always particularly puzzled why intelligent Nazis kept fighting the Western Allied forces in 1944 and why rich proud Americans keep supporting Donald Trump (Trumpf) in 2022. What is it that Trump is tapping into? The Anglo Saxon poem "The Wanderer" talked of the love of serving one's lord and grieving for his loss. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSJ7Sl-Q-HE

In 1944, reality for Germans included having many bombs dropping on them everywhere and so had many stark reasons to surrender to The West and also to expect a good life ahead with many good outcomes: Life in Argentina was quite cushy for many Nazi Germans after WWII (it provided the backdrop to the fabulous movie Gilda) and post-war Germany has been a spectacular economic success subsidising social programmes all across Europe. Normally, Germany is a rich strong beautiful country with an fine intellectual tradition and much both to give and its soldiers to live for: beers, breads, and blonde madchen. Werner von Braun had been a member of the Nazi party but became the leader of NASA's Apollo 11 Moon rocket development programme in the 1960s and he deliberately travelled Westwards to surrender to the advancing American forces because he knew that he would be welcomed. Von Braun became the inspiration for the character of Dr Strangeglove in the eponymous movie and, similarly in Hollywood, Christoph Waltz portrayal of Hans Landa negotiating his own advantageous surrender terms became the most memorable moment in the movie "Inglourious Basterds".

In 1943, Britain was so secure in its confidence of winning the war, that government committees paid Bristol Aircraft to forget bombers and instead to design trans-Atlantic luxury airliners with an cinema and a cocktail lounge (Bristol Brabazon). During the war, the UK alone had outproduced Germany in fighter aircraft every year and Germany had not a single ship, missile or aircraft that could reach The USA homeland whilst the USA had a manufacturing capacity that dwarfed both Germany and Japan and access to: The UK, Africa and Italy for bases with which to attack Germany. The Soviet Union was also destroying all the German forces in the East. Hitler was such a bad military leader that the UK forbade all attempts to assassinate him because his incompetence was so useful. Japan had signed a secret agreement to attack Russia and ruined all of Hitler's plans when, instead, it attacked Pearl Harbour so the demise of Nazi Germany was certain as early as 1941. Once, allied forces were advancing in Italy and France, the contrast between the obvious outcomes became notably stark: surrender, survive and rebuild versus fighting to the death for a useless failed leader. Italy surrendered as a whole, why not the German soldiers in France and Flanders ?

Texas and the US Mid-West had large German immigrant communities and they still celebrate wiener festivals, Wisconsin cheese heads and German wines. Ex-president Trump became a one-term president after losing the last presidential election according to almost everyone including his daughter, his attorney general most rational Republicans, the American electoral system, Congress and his own Vice President. Ex-president Trump was originally a TV star and a Democrat voter who brushed with bankruptcy at least twice, borrowed heavily from many foreign banks, had secret meetings with President Putin, was sued for sexual assault by many women, is reviled by some of his own family, appears to have kept "Top Secret" US defence documents at his private home, may have encouraged a coup in his own country and has been investigated many times as a possible foreign agent and will be both overweight and aged over 70 by the start of the next election campaign. Surely, it is time to consider that Trumpf is a failed fuhrer and there are better alternative leaders ?

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