In nazi parlance, the first Reich was the Holy Roman Empire, the second Reich was the unified German empire that ended with WWI. The third Reich was the German state and government created by Adolf Hitler. The Weimar Republic, at least according to Nazis, was not strong enough to count as a reich.
The point I’m getting to is that real Nazis are so German nationalist, they wouldn’t be caught dead using the word “Reich” for anything that’s not German.
That’s how fascists are. They’re incredibly nationalistic.
Meanwhile, the United States has enjoyed the same constitutional government since 1789. You can’t call a hypothetical successor state the fourth anything. In my thinking, it should be the second whatever. You could maybe stretch it to “third” by counting the Articles of Confederation government as the first. But if Weimar doesn’t count I don’t see why the Articles government should count.
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If anything should be called the Fourth Reich, it’s the current government of Germany (from 1945). Germany enjoys massive political power both on its own and through the European Union. It has unified the ethnic Germans of Poland, Austria, and Czechia by means of Schengen. Modern Germany is even sending tanks back east to Ukraine.
then you understand that although calling it a 4th reich would be colossally dumb in a multitude of ways, he’d power through all that and do it anyway, right
On a side note, there’s a rabbithole of who claimed what country is the third iteration of the Roman Empire. I only knew about Germany and Russia with it’s state-level motto ‘Moscow is the third Rome’, but many other countries (or their ideologists of varying mental health problems) said something akin to that too. It’s funny how regressive politicians masturbate to the past and it’s symbolism, but I doubt anyone of them would name their flagman ship Titanic, although it’s not too far from claiming a dead state’s name imho.
I can’t get over how stupid this headline is.
In nazi parlance, the first Reich was the Holy Roman Empire, the second Reich was the unified German empire that ended with WWI. The third Reich was the German state and government created by Adolf Hitler. The Weimar Republic, at least according to Nazis, was not strong enough to count as a reich.
The point I’m getting to is that real Nazis are so German nationalist, they wouldn’t be caught dead using the word “Reich” for anything that’s not German.
That’s how fascists are. They’re incredibly nationalistic.
Meanwhile, the United States has enjoyed the same constitutional government since 1789. You can’t call a hypothetical successor state the fourth anything. In my thinking, it should be the second whatever. You could maybe stretch it to “third” by counting the Articles of Confederation government as the first. But if Weimar doesn’t count I don’t see why the Articles government should count.
Edit:
If anything should be called the Fourth Reich, it’s the current government of Germany (from 1945). Germany enjoys massive political power both on its own and through the European Union. It has unified the ethnic Germans of Poland, Austria, and Czechia by means of Schengen. Modern Germany is even sending tanks back east to Ukraine.
Trump is dumb
I agree.
then you understand that although calling it a 4th reich would be colossally dumb in a multitude of ways, he’d power through all that and do it anyway, right
Your analysis is 100% correct, but utterly irrelevant to the point.
Every reader understood the meaning, and the loser named Trump doesn’t care either.
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/figurative-language/#:~:text=Figurative language is a type,or explain a complicated idea.
On a side note, there’s a rabbithole of who claimed what country is the third iteration of the Roman Empire. I only knew about Germany and Russia with it’s state-level motto ‘Moscow is the third Rome’, but many other countries (or their ideologists of varying mental health problems) said something akin to that too. It’s funny how regressive politicians masturbate to the past and it’s symbolism, but I doubt anyone of them would name their flagman ship Titanic, although it’s not too far from claiming a dead state’s name imho.