That’s because the Trump administration is rewriting the disability eligibility rules, ostensibly to modernize the program, in ways that will make it even harder for aging blue-collar workers like Tincher to get benefits. Hundreds of thousands just like him would become ineligible for aid.
These changes would fall disproportionately on some of Trump’s most loyal supporters in red states. Most affected would be 50- to 60-year-olds without a high school or college education who have, for decades, toiled in physically grueling jobs, including coal mining, logging, and factory and construction work. The five states where the highest proportions of people rely on these benefits are West Virginia, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi and Alabama. Unlike New York, California and a few others, these states do not have their own disability insurance programs for workers to turn to amid federal cuts.
By the time Hitler was elected, there weren’t that many Jews in Germany. Centuries of pogroms had reduced the population to a tiny fraction. Jewish communities of the neighboring countries, especially Poland, made up the vast majority of jumewish holocaust victims.
Also Hitler was appointed chancellor by a conservative prime minister, who’s party got more votes than the nazis, but needed a coalition partner and didn’t want the liberals, and definitely not the communists.
If Hitler had been elected on a landslide of the German Jewish vote, I would still feel bad for them, but I would think about it differently.