[hayst4ck]

Here is Timothy Snyder, once Yale professor specializing in the holocaust, explaining how an atrocity like the holocaust could have happened. If you ever asked yourself "how could something so evil have happened" you should definitely watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsKrWLf7Kg4

Likewise it is worth reading They Thought They Were Free. It describes the mental states of denial and inevitability, the rationalization of inaction, and of realizing it's "too late." If you want the quick read you can start at "Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse." Here is an excerpt: https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.htm

People who have have made it their lives work to study the worst kinds of history have been setting off alarms because they perceive the fires of fascism to be burning here in America right now. Here you can watch such a video (5m) on NYT of world experts on the atrocities of the past warning us: https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010157022/yale-c...

[RandomBacon]

> have been setting off alarms because they perceive the fires of fascism to be burning here in America right now

The problem is that people who unknowingly support it, view these warnings as just another attack, and are desensitized to such attacks. To them, this is just another attack indistinguishable from all of the previous attacks where they feel vindicated.

They perceived that one side went too far to the extreme, so they're trying counteract it, and in the process go too far in the other direction.