Smug American forties liberal blather. Who goes Nazi? Everyone who's not "kind"? Because there were no kind, deluded housewives or whatever in Nazi Germany, right? And you're hardly being "kind" right now by drawing false equivalencies between the upstanding salubrious citizen lawyer and the decent farmer (either of these guys could go Nazi--many did, many didn't), or between big business and big labour (the laziest of all false equivalencies). I mean, Trump's no Hitler (he may yet be worse, though signs do not point such, but the details are all different), but if there's one thing this nuts election and administration (which Dorothy Thompson wasn't around for, to be fair) should have demonstrated is that people go Nazi for all kinds of reasons, not because of some perhaps obscure but still somewhere suppurating psychic wound (or not only, or not mostly). But mostly I guess, the character sketches here are fun in a couple cases and all, but I guess I don't really buy this kind of social determinism. ( )