I linked this article before but have just re-read it (well worth it!), so I'm posting again:

"Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi. . . . Their race, color, creed, or social condition is not the criterion. It is something in them.

"Those who haven’t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don’t—whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi."

- Dorothy Thompson, Who Goes Nazi? https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/

@ljwrites Dorothy Thompson does a great job with the character portraits in this piece, which always makes it an enjoyable read but I can’t help but find the accuracy of her predictions to be rather suspect. Mr H certainly, would fight against foreign Naziism, but an American grown fascist movement? He’d be blinded to its evils by his own patriotic pride at American Colonialism.