Like Hoss and so many others, he reacted to the defeat of Germany in the First World War by turning to the most extreme forms of resentful nationalism, rabid antisemitism and hatred of parliamentary democracy.
This is the set of issues that keeps coming up. What is the US parallel? Possibly more “insults,” but not on the level of a defeat in a huge war. But all the many losses of cis-hetero, white, male superiority, combined with the changes wrought by US postindustrialism and winner-take-all capitalism might be enough to fuel a similar degree of grief and confusion turned to rage and violence. But more, as well…
