No, he wasn’t. He was appointed. His party won the largest number of seats, but not a majority, and Paul von Hindenburg won the Presidency. The problem is that the party with the largest representation got to choose the Chancellor, so obviously the Nazis picked Hitler. In theory the President needed to agree to it, unfortunately they were Nazis so, ya know, not big fans of mutually beneficial compromises.

Then Pauly Boy let them pass the Reichstag Fire Decree and the purge of opposition began.

The power sharing at the time was a bit convoluted but eventually he’d force the Presidency into irrelevance and then, eventually, just take the title too, for shits and giggles.

It’s not new even in india. Indira Gandhi, who for all the good things she has done, turned dictator, suspended our Constitution, and launched the Emergency on a flimsy pretext. India united & brought her to her knees.

This 2nd attempt at dictatorship is by Hindu supremacist Modi, who is trying to destroy our Constitution and electoral process since he knows he faces a defeat.

The most dangerous time fo abuse victims is when the abuser feels they might escape. Same situation.

Only if done in good faith.

What faith do you in a power-hungry megalomaniac dictator and his power structures, who uses cyberweapons against its citizens, who views opposition and activists and the common man who doesn’t kowtow as the enemy, who spies on all its citizens, who uses UAPA not against terrorists but against Dalit & Adivasi rights activists, who has created a violent ethnic & communal civil war in Manipur, who openly persecutes its religious minorities and the oppressed castes, who destablised our economy to convert black money to white, who enables corporate monopolies and kills MSMEs, who refuses to be responsible or accountable for any of their policy failings, who has deliberately weakened states rights, who sends IB after professors, who uses the law to crush democracy, who sends IB after minority religions, who allows and participates in hatespeech, who destroys homes & livelihoods of the poor on a whim, who fails India’s territorial integrity, who lies publicly to the people he should be leading, who denigrates & catcalls women politicians, who benefits from creating conflict, who behaves like a king and not an elected people’s representative?

I think you don’t understand how indian political system work. In India the Prime minister is elected by the people and has a similar position to the President of United States.

Modi’s party got majority seats in the previous election.

The President of India is more of a ceremonial role. It is one of the duties of the President to appoint the Prime minister. In this scenario the President really doesn’t have a choice.