I feel like most of us here would have been the SA, which was comprised of ~3 million farmers, ww1 veterans, and other disaffected members of society (homeless, etc) and that Adolf ended up killing their leadership and putting them out to pasture in favor of the ~50,000 member SS
After the Night of the Long Knives, SA members were marginalized, becoming a secondary force, mostly used for:
* Parades and propaganda
* Training Hitler Youth
* Auxiliary police roles
It never regained its former power.
We know that the SS didn't have the sentiment or stomach to actually do the holocaust.
The recent trend of the larger "far right" twitter accounts sperging about the rest of us, denigrating us as "wignats" has me thinking that this could happen again, and that we should not make this mistake twice
If anyone irl ever gets wound up about "optics" and "aesthetics" you should probably be ready to kill them before they kill you. Those who think they are "elites" within the movement should be eliminated, their "refinement" is our undoing. It is also very likely that this is where subversive jews will be found with the greatest frequency. They don't give a shit about being in the rank and file, only about taking over.
Implementing the "true socialism" of the NSDAP 25 point program was going to have to wait until *after* the threat of communism was gone, and the SA leaders wouldn't accept that.
They were purged because the faggot in charge was about to do a coup d'état. They were literally days away from starting a civil war, and Hitler hit them first to prevent the civil war.
It had nothing to do with a difference in political views.