Who Goes Nazi? By Dorothy Thompson (Harper’s, 1941)
&gt; <i>...the product of a democracy hypocritically preaching social equality and practicing a carelessly brutal snobbery.</i><p>Some things change slowly.<p>[Note on HN relevance: America got von Neumann and Gödel and Einstein and so many others (tbf also, a bit later, von Braun and co.!) because of what were, at that time, Continental politics]<p>[Edit: I had originally said &quot;glacially&quot; instead of &quot;slowly&quot;, but remembered that 1941 was before both the desegregation of the armed forces and, later, of the Civil Rights Movement]