liberalism creates the apathy that leads to populism

Populism isn't apathetic. Again, just the opposite. Populists are activists, practically by their nature.

Whether you're rallying to block deportations or throwing a riot over vaccines, the accusation that you're apathetic flies in the face of your views and actions.

I think that’s a bit of a reductive way to view how fascism develops. Calling it a social tool implies that there is some kind of puppet master wielding it.

Call it a technique then. But national media and the political elite blaming migrants, religious minorities, and social progressives for economic woes is nothing new.

Again, you are referencing a tiny portion of the population.

You're thinking of what you see on the nightly news as the sum total of all activity.

For every BLM protest reported on there were dozens that never got mention. For every MAGA rally or Tea Party event, dozens flew under the radar.

I've been to events with thousands of people that never got a peep of coverage. And I've watched riots in real time that barely earned a minute of footage on the local channels.

is more than just a quip.

The origins of the Nazi party developed from the DAP, which was started in 1919

The same year Rosa Luxembourg was assassinated after leading the Sparticus Uprising. Two years after the Russian Revolution kicked off next door.

Hardly a dull era for German politics

It wasn’t until after the great depression began that they started to actually become more popular with regular German people.

They were jockeying for position among half a dozen different radical and reactionary movements. Hitler had gone to prison attempting a coup - Germany's own J6 style event - years earlier. Meanwhile, Communists, Anarchists, Liberals, and Conservatives were engaged in foreign sponsored street fights across the country.

What the Nazis achieved was an effective paramilitary that could operate with impunity in a country that was in the grip of a low key civil war.

but from a relatively small portion of the public, mostly in Berlin

Again, that's simply not true. The Beer Hall Putsch of '23 was in Munich, not Berlin. The Hamburg Uprising happened that same year, in an event known as German October (intended to be a parallel to the Russian October Revolution six years earlier). Blutmai, in '29, was in Berlin, but it was far from the only event leading up to the '33 dictatorship.

You had lower key actions and oppositions happening across the country. The Cuno Strikes, for instance, were nationwide.

From 1918-1933 there were over 350 political assassination committed by the right compared to around 20 from the left

There were over 3000 strike actions in 1918. How many of those were organized by right leaning parties?