It is a point blank crazy statement to think of. I mean just say it in your head. It is 1930s Germany, and you are going to cast a vote, soon, much like you will, or already have been doing as an American Citizen mail-in-voter, and you think to yourself, “The man running against Hitler is going to have to work to earn my vote.”
I suppose the truth is many Germans felt that way in 1930s. Truth is. That time period was a very bad one for Germany, and the German peoples. In passionately, charismatic, Adolf Hitler the German people saw a President that would lead them to glory. Hitler would do so by reversing the tide of the depression, that the winners of Europe and the first world war had plunged Germany into by forcing Germany to pay the cost of World War I, as losers in the war.
Remember the war had two sides. The Allies composed of Britain, France, the United States, Russia, and Italy. On the opposite side of them were the Central Powers of Germany, Astria-Hungury, Bulgaria, and the Turkish Ottoman Empire.
The Treaty of Versailles occurred in June of 1919 in Paris, France, at the close of World War I. The three Allied powers and the by then defunct Central Powers represented only by Germany signed the treaty. The treaty of Versailles held Germany responsible for the cause of World War I, and left the nation holding the bag on harsh penalties for years to come. For instance, Germany was forced to demobilize its military, cede former German lands and most draconianly in a punishing fashion forced to near the sole costs of paying for the war.
The humiliation that German peoples felt for a full decade and then some would lead to all the ripe conditions that would foster growth for the Communist Nazi Party and lead the the rise in fame and eventual presidency of Adolf Hitler. The debt of the war burdened the newly formed Weimar Republic of Germany for many years and led to a great economic destabilization and inflation of the German Reichsmark.
So you see at the time of the 1932 German, Presidential Election, it was very east to think and be of the sentiment, that Adolf Hitler, and the newly formed Nazi party, would champion the cause of the batter German identity and elevate its people back to glory. Which, as we all know History, Germany under Hitler went very far and close to controlling the whole world, all from Berlin.
Coming back to Donald Trump and the 2020 United States presidential election. Donald is no Nazi. Though, racism and prejudice, run in his bloodline – and his father was known to have brotherly relations with the KKK. It seems Donald Trump himself has no qualms, or personal anxieties, over receiving love and support from racists and biggots. Evidenced by all the many times he has failed to condemn racist attacks, slurs, or violence in the mainstream media. And instead contrarily to a post of American Presidential leadership continues to spur on negative prejudicial attacks on American citizens that do not agree with him.