Okay, I have German heritage (and Slav heritage if that counts for anything) and you are badly mistaken.
Not only is Goethe a bad person for being anti semitic, kinda racist, but also he sold ten(s) of thousand soldiers (who were often pressed into military service) as slave soldiers to the US, but also he used what amounts to slave labour in the mines/road construction he oversaw and lead to cruel harshly exploitative policies in those mines.
Furthermore it is a dog whistle in Germany to say "muh heritage" so no, except for reactionaries and a few "normies" this reads right wing, in addition what is this "German heritage" supposed to be? Before 1870 there was no Germany, but only a political disunited bundle of small semi-feudalist states. To take a person of ~1780 to 1830 (Goethe) as heritage is kinda disengenious.
We can’t just take the Nazis as defining Germany for all time
This is revisionist take and in German left circles or academic non left circles would get you silenced hard.
Germany has an incredible artistic, philosophical, and literary history even compared to the other big European powers
Is culturchauvinistic, too.
Germany’s is pretty alright.
No. You just don't know about "our" "heritage" and history.
when Hitler never even won a fucking election
The NSDAP won plenty elections, yes the Machtergreifung [seizure of power] did follow not cause they had the majority in the Reichtsag, but that isn't necessary to seize power for fascists as Mussolini showed, too. Controlling the police institutions of the federal and state levels are good enough.
The idea that you have to lead the majority government (at best only with your party) is idealist and might be based in an understanding of legitimacy of governments by the amount of seats they hold in government which isn't the case.
much less represent the will of the bulk of the German people
Okay, I have German heritage (and Slav heritage if that counts for anything) and you are badly mistaken.
Not only is Goethe a bad person for being anti semitic, kinda racist, but also he sold ten(s) of thousand soldiers (who were often pressed into military service) as slave soldiers to the US, but also he used what amounts to slave labour in the mines/road construction he oversaw and lead to cruel harshly exploitative policies in those mines.
Furthermore it is a dog whistle in Germany to say "muh heritage" so no, except for reactionaries and a few "normies" this reads right wing, in addition what is this "German heritage" supposed to be? Before 1870 there was no Germany, but only a political disunited bundle of small semi-feudalist states. To take a person of ~1780 to 1830 (Goethe) as heritage is kinda disengenious.
This is revisionist take and in German left circles or academic non left circles would get you silenced hard.
Is culturchauvinistic, too.
No. You just don't know about "our" "heritage" and history.
The NSDAP won plenty elections, yes the Machtergreifung [seizure of power] did follow not cause they had the majority in the Reichtsag, but that isn't necessary to seize power for fascists as Mussolini showed, too. Controlling the police institutions of the federal and state levels are good enough.
The idea that you have to lead the majority government (at best only with your party) is idealist and might be based in an understanding of legitimacy of governments by the amount of seats they hold in government which isn't the case.
Is also a bad take, but I will not talk about it.
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