As we watch Elon Musk slide into rightwing radicalization in real time, I’m reminded of this 1941 piece by Dorothy Thompson.
“Who goes Nazi?”

In short: it is the people who love money and status and power that are at risk.
Those who resist the urge are the people who have a solid family life; a job they love for the work, not the money; a moral framework based on pluralism and equal access to opportunity.
Worth a read. #nazi #Twitter #liberal

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

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Harper's Magazine
@protecttruth I don’t study history but reading posts like this really makes me want to start.. it’s just mind boggling for me to see and think it’s free societies where Nazi movements can grow form and attack the very society that raised nurtured and provided ..I literally at this point don’t have the ability to understand