I drove 2,000 miles with a French friend across my home country \u2013 and saw the endless nowhere land that is the crucible of Trumpism<\/p>\n
In 1941 Dorothy Thompson, an American journalist who reported from Germany in the lead-up to the second world war, wrote an essay for Harper\u2019s about the personality types most likely to be attracted to Nazism, headlined \u201cWho Goes Nazi?<\/a>\u201d \u201cThose who haven\u2019t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don\u2019t \u2013 whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi,\u201d Thompson wrote.<\/p>\n Talia Lavin<\/a>, a US writer, recently gave Thompson\u2019s idea an update on Substack with an essay of her own: \u201cWho Goes Maga?\u201d<\/p>\n Alexander Hurst is a Guardian Europe correspondent<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I drove 2,000 miles with a French friend across my home country \u2013 and saw the endless nowhere land that is the crucible of Trumpism In 1941 Dorothy Thompson, an American journalist who reported from Germany in the lead-up to the second world war, wrote an essay for Harper\u2019s about the personality types most likely … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}