"The frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis." harpers.org/archive/1941... - ThreadSky

leahgreenberg.bsky.social • 94 days ago

"The frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis."

https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/

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agronox.bsky.social•94 days ago

Damn, Elon Musk is all of those

unpopularhistorian.bsky.social•94 days ago

Mr. C described JD Vance perfectly.

jr3597.bsky.social•94 days ago

Indeed.

christinek27.bsky.social•94 days ago

📌

ceemaccee.bsky.social•94 days ago

📌

invertedpyramid.bsky.social•94 days ago

Gotta get me a bumper sticker:

'Hey, I didn't vote for the fascist.'

thebluewitch.bsky.social•89 days ago

📌

davebrowne.bsky.social•94 days ago

Read this one a few months ago and, my god, plus ca change plus c'est la meme chose.

(sorry to the French for my lack of accents, but I'm on a PC and have no idea how to do all those alt codes)

andalsoplus.bsky.social•94 days ago

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mnresister.bsky.social•94 days ago

I know some of these people personally. Which is why things are so hard right now.

jackietastic.bsky.social•94 days ago

Great article!

gardenplanet.bsky.social•94 days ago

It's an absolute classic.

jackietastic.bsky.social•94 days ago

It is also, to an immense extent, the disease of a generation—the generation which was either young or unborn at the end of the last war. This is as true of Englishmen, Frenchmen, and Americans as of Germans. It is the disease of the so-called “lost generation.”

jumpingbud.bsky.social•94 days ago

It's also just as much one of the many failures of education systems worldwide in fully conveying the horror of the Nazis and fascism. Too many people just assumed everyone knew, understood, and accepted this. But that lost generation obviously does not.

resister1960.bsky.social•94 days ago

TY for posting this. Humans forget. They forgot the chaos of the Trump presidency in 4 years. @thomhartmann.bsky.social wrote an article, that makes the same point, but with historical facts that show that wars come in an 80-year cycle, when the last people with knowledge of the war are dying out

jackietastic.bsky.social•94 days ago

Humans are not great at remembering and learning from history.

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