Flutterby™! : Who Goes Nazi?

An interesting historical piece from Harper's Magazine in August of 1941, during those last golden months before the US entered WW2, but Hitler stood on the English Channel, at the Gates of Egypt, and was still chasing Stalin across the Ukraine. Dorothy Thompson muses during a Manhattan cocktail party as to which guest would collaborate with the Nazi's is push came to shove, and which ones wouldn't. While Thompson's own bits of snobbery are sometime's visible, there's some canny reading of the internal psychology of fascism going on here.

Of course, when the war came the America Firsters and other isolationists, right and left, disbanded. Many who wanted to stay out of the war gave their life during it. But many of the attitudes before it still haunt us.