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In the Weimar Republic, the Nazis never got more than something like 30% of the vote. Fascist "loud minorities" are still incredibly dangerous.
They got 44% of the vote in 1933, and another fascist party got 8%. Then there were a couple more far-right parties.
Two weeks later, Hitler passed the Enablement Act with the support of all the non-left-wing parties, effectively giving him full dictatorial control.
Fascists weren't a loud minority for Nazi Germany, they were the majority.