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He would not have managed to get any support if it wasn't for the hate and scapegoating, he'd be some unknown good guy.
That simply isn't true, contemporary sources make it clear that he had charisma to spare. The Weimar Republic was ripe for a radical populist movement due to a number of reasons, but that means a less hateful ideology could have succeeded as well. The period balanced on a political knife edge, and who knows what would have happened if he'd been a true believer in something actually helpful?