The Thom Hartmann Program asks “What Is It Going to Take to
Stop the Rise of Fascism in America?”
The Thom Hartman show on Patreon discusses the book by Milton
Mayer and Richard J. Evans, “They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45”
from the University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Roger Lowenstein reviews “The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s
Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic”, from Henry Holt, 2018,
by Benjamin Carter Hett.
But I think that Hartmann has it right. The impulse toward fascism happened so
gradually nobody noticed, at least “average Joe” gentile Germans who were
employed again.
But I think that there is a personal aspect to it, something
the gay community sees as “body fascism”, te tip of a moral iceberg, a small personal
skin cancer that becomes like a melanoma if it gets into politics, a bad scene. It has to do with shame, and getting off on
it. And it has to do with not wanting to
make something in someone else if we need our own use of the shame associated
with it.
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