No, it’s not this at all. It’s not being fine with it; if anything, the Germans were far *less* fine with it than we are now, because nothing like Fox existed until Hitler built it after he had total power.

It was, “I’m not political,” “I’m too concerned with my own life to get involved,” “Most of us are better than this,” and “Surely this time they’ve gone too far and it will correct itself.” Jews and other targeted populations told each other this, when explaining why they hadn’t emigrated, literally until the day that their emigration was outlawed. Years after Hitler took power, years after increasingly restrictive persecution.

And they saw the worst of it. Can you imagine how much latitude the average German had to normalize and dismiss in the same way?

THAT’S the parallel.

The crucial difference: the Nazis didn’t have the Nazis to point to and say, we’re not as bad as that, so who we are is perfectly acceptable until we are. John Pavlovitz