# Democrats also facing internal faction fight this year?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrats-also-facing-internal-faction-fight-this-year/531301
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [March 4, 2010, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrats-also-facing-internal-faction-fight-this-year/531301 "2010-03-04T17:37:10Z")
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### Author: ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2010, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/democrats-also-facing-internal-faction-fight-this-year/531301/21 "2010-03-05T15:49:35Z")

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> [@Sage\_Rat](#):
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> I suspect that in those cases they weren’t extremists, you just have the opinion that they were.

I was thinking mainly of the Nazis, who were extremists, and who never formed more than a plurality of the German electorate or parliament, and who came to power, in a democratic setting, by being a whole lot more determined than the moderates. Some conservatives might apply the same analysis to Hugo Chavez’ party in Venezuela.

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