Don't know much about history--Bernie Sanders edition

Glenn Kessler:

Why you shouldn’t retweet Sanders’s claim that Hitler ‘won an election’

Hitler did not take power through and election.

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But while there were many elections held in Germany in 1932, Hitler was a loser when he appeared on the ballot. He mostly gained power not through the voting booth but through violence, intimidation and deceit. Still, we wavered between Three and Four Pinocchios, given that the Nazis did gain seats in the parliament.

But we ultimately decided that calling it “an election” devalues the traumatic history of the era, and Sanders should clarify the record — especially when legions of his supporters are repeating his flawed history lesson all over the Internet.

Four Pinocchios
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This seems another testament to the failure of liberal education.  Like Obama, Sanders appears to be a poor student of history.