When the left calls Trump supporters """Nazis""", tell them which Party in Weimar Germany we're actually like
(en.wikipedia.org)
THE RESISTANCE
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Yes. That's the German version of "State's Rights".
Germany was originally several hundred principalities under a very loose confederacy. Some of those mostly-independent states (especially in the Protestant North) were the best educated, most industrious, and freest places in Europe. The First Reich was the Best Reich!
That system was destroyed by French aggression - remember Napoleon? Germany had to unify in order to compete (especially militarily) with the empires that surrounded it. That gave Prussia the excuse to take everything over by force and impose a strong central government. That was in 1871, still within living memory of the Weimar Republic...
Swiss cantons (along with the fully sovereign Liechtenstein) still somewhat resemble the old German idea that local governance is best.
Citation needed. It held off supporting the NSDAP until the NSDAP broke them by force.
And remember that at the time the NSDAP was responding to a crisis. The Commies and Communists were in majority (SPD+KPD), and a much bigger threat. Radical communists were carrying out a campaign of terrorism and assassination.
As far as I can find (with very little searching of what you linked and related pages), they weren't advocating for the dissolution of Germany or even much more regional autonomy. They only begrudgingly accepted Weimar.
For the NSDAP thing, I'm just going off the Wikipedia article you linked, where it mentions they began swerving hard-right and moving for a coalition with the NSDAP and other nationalists, and the quote