All Hitler All the Time
In the middle of the last century, architecture critic Sibyl Moholy-Nagy coined the term “Hitler’s Revenge” in an essay of the same title. She was pointing out that the flow of talent from Europe in the first half of the 20th century brought with it troubling and possibly dangerous ideas. Hitler shook the fruit tree of Europe, the fruit tumbled to the ground, and America scooped it up—but some of the fruit was poison.
This was obvious at the time to people aware of what was happening in the American intellectual elite and it has become blazingly clear now. Some very wicked people brought to their new country ideas that have no place in a civilized society. The tree of liberty has been poisoned by some of the fruit that American scooped after Hitler shook the intellectual tree of Western Europe.
In the 1990s, Peter Brimelow used the term “Hitler’s Revenge” as part of his critique of American immigration policy. He noted that the U.S. political elite emerged from the war obsessed with cleansing itself of r
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