Article: Expert on Nazi Germany Explains How 'Average' Citizens Enabled Hitler Just Like Trump:

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9. I think it would be instructional to look at racism/tribalism over history to understand the factors

The premises of the article seem correct to me - a history buff but not a 'spurt.

Limiting this to comparing Hitler and Trump and their own brands of racism, alienation, hostility, etc. is too limiting in scope. Genocide has probably been going on since primates first started hefting stones - probably before.

I would think we'd want to find the overarching independent factors that have led to these monsters, whether within the last 100 years or 10,000 years. I believe we'll find some critical items such as influxes of "not us" immigrants, social classes, wealth disparity, religious fervor, and perhaps things like epidemics.