You wrote, “The United States is still a long way from the fevered atmosphere of Germany in 1933.”
According to who? YOU? Actually, America for African Americans whose ancestors were FORCIBLY brought to these shores to work as beasts of burden to enrich white people have a totally different point of view from yours. From the 1600s going forward up to the current day, African Americans have been subjected to the full horrors of American nazi-style racism in every area of life. Where are the Native Ethnic Peoples of this hemisphere now? You know, the ones that were murdered via genocide, so that white people could “settle” on their land? In case you didn’t know, they are mostly dead and/or sequested on “reservations,” as if they don’t have a right to exist on their own land. The US government breaks every fake phony treaty that they make with Native Americans. There is never an end to the white man’s thirst for hurting these people through the wholesale theft of their land. I can give numerous other examples of American nazism. So yes, it DOES exist in this country and IS as American as apple pie.