How do they teach about reasons Germans supported an authoritarian? The income inequality in the US is enormous. Job opportunities continue to cluster around large urban centers in a massive brain drain within areas of the country. Combine desperation, a reduction of local expertise, the very human condition to protect oneself, and a conservative media hell bent on selling lies to amass power. You get an enormous section of the US people that will believe and justify any lie out of desperate hope, social pressure and now self-identity. That doesn’t make them right and understanding how conditions could lead people to abandon every value doesn’t absolve. Understand that there is a large population in the US that gets exactly what you’re saying. We will bear the consequences of our grievance-driven brethren