Tom Nichols on MAGA: They *like* that he's awful. This is the part that many other Americans can't grasp. The MAGA folks
support Trump *because* he's horrible, not in spite of it.
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That's how deplorable they are. 
Remember that for the average German during World War Ii, most of the atrocities that were committed, such as the Holocaust and the death camps, were hidden, by a very pliant media. Part of this was also due to the fact that many of the people who were in the know were actually Austrian, who were even more pro-Hitler than the Germans were. Similarly, many of the most infamous camps such as Auschwitz-Birkinau were in Poland.
The MAGA for the most part are the evolution of the American Nazi party and the Ku Klux Klan. Ultranationlist, authoritarian, misogynist, racist, jingoistic. It's worth noting that Germans actually make up the single largest group by country of origin in the US, even beating out Mexico and the UK, and it was far from certain that America wouldn't go to war in support of Germany in the 1930s. There was a lot of support for Hitler in the US, especially among the upper class.
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American progressive sensibilities were largely driven by the Nordic countries, but the strain of Nazi Aryanism was laid, barely dormant, just under the cultural awareness of the US for a long time, until it finally fused with the emergent Christo-Fundamentalists in the 1970s. It's easy to see MAGAts as being rubes, but it is worth understanding the deeper origins of where this movement came from, and the fact that Trump has been very adept at molding himself as the Aryan Ubermensch (tall, wealthy, blonde, powerful, sexually active, etc.)
