extensive emergency 🚨 powers-- vested in him by the immature #Weimar constitution, and named 4 consecutive, volatile #PresidentialCabinets, always at the mercy of the #Reichstag, in only two years.

And then it happened:

"After the [Nov. 6, 1932] election, 👉#Hindenburg offered #Hitler the opportunity to form a parliamentary majority government. 👈

[So, for the first time since the collapse in 1930, 👉a regular #CoalitionGovernment would have been @HistoPol @realSiegfried @jrredho

@jrredho
#WeimarRepublic #DEhistory #ThirdReich

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This is, in principle, correct, but the context is important:

1) In a (pluralistic) #ParliamentaryDemocracy, a #CoalitionGovernment is the norm, as they reflect society much better than #WinnerTakesAll/ #FirstPastThePost systems (e. g. US, UK.)

2.) At the beginning of the #GreatDepression, in 1930, the last such government collapsed on the vital question of unemployment-insurance reform:

@realSiegfried