I've almost finished "The Coming of the Third Reich", by Richard J. Evans, and the one thing that stands out is how much Germany's economic collapse before 1933 laid the seeds for the Nazi's rise. This is why it's hard for me to relate it to anything America has recently experienced or Putin's Russia. As bad as the Jan. 6 riots were they would have been a heck of a lot worse if every rioter had no job to go back to. When loaves of bread cost a wheelbarrow of money and you have a family to feed even the most draconian political structures become attractive.