Thank you, Jen Hayden at dailykos.com for locating what is apparently the first New York Times reporting on Hitler. Talk about going back to the present!
The Times reported in 1922 that “several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that Hitler’s anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded. . .”
The mind reels. The mind recaps the way that the GOP’s increasing extremism, of which Trump is simply a particularly grotesque embodiment, has been normalized and sold to the public by so much of our “mainstream” media. Perhaps some of it is simply denial–but the outright encouragement of Trump by the TV networks is unconscionable. Again, as so much of what is now accepted behavior by elites in this country, it is treasonous.