People are furious with the New York Times over their normalised profile of a Nazi

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14. Yet another Proof of Godwin's Law in action...

In the US, racism is certainly still extant. It exists almost everywhere, more obvious in some places and some people than others, but it is there. Repubs, with their Southern Strategy have been stoking those fires for many years and the result is now in the White House. If you look at the time line, it is pretty inexorable.

The parallel in Nazi Germany is anti-semitism. It had existed in Europe for centuries, usually supported actively by the Catholic Church. It had softened a bit by the 20th Century, but like American racism it was still bubbling just below the surface. Hitler exploited that to seize power and enact the Holocaust, which may have been the most important item in his agenda when you think about it.