Desmond Latham Weimar Washington

Weimar Washington

What if history isn’t repeating—but rhyming with unsettling precision?
Weimar to Washington is a gripping, narrative-driven podcast that explores the ideological, cultural, and psychological parallels between the rise of the Third Reich under Adolf Hitler and the modern political movement surrounding Donald Trump. Through sharp analysis and storytelling, the series examines how extreme conservatism and Traditionalist philosophy can reshape democracies from within.
From the romanticization of a lost “Golden Age” to the weaponization of race, religion, and nostalgia, this episode traces the philosophical threads connecting past and present. The show dives into the architecture of power: how figures like Benito Mussolini, Viktor Orbán, and Jair Bolsonaro crafted narratives of national rebirth—and how similar patterns echo in contemporary America. It explores the role of Traditionalism, a little-understood ideology rooted in thinkers like Julius Evola, and how it reframes modern politics as a spiritual war for civilizational survival.
At its core, this is a story about belief: how myths become movements, how grievance becomes identity, and how democracy can unravel when emotion overtakes reason.
This isn’t just left vs right. It’s past vs present. Myth vs reality.
And the question lingers—are we watching history unfold… or repeat?
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3 Episodes

Episode 3 - The Architecture of Allegiance: Building the Shadow State

There are lean years in any autocrats life and for Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement those lay between 1925 and the depression of 1929. It was all about patience, he had to wait until the feeling of relaxation in Germany as William Shirer calls it, had worn off. American…
10 May 22 min

Episode 1 - Priests, Warriors and Merchants: Traditionalism, Hitler and Trump

This series takes a close look at the uncanny similarity between the growth of extreme conservatism and Traditionalism in Germany leading to the installation of the Third Reich under Adolf Hitler, and the rise of extreme conservatism and traditionalism in the United States of America under Donald Trump. Just a…
21 Apr 26 min