We took the wrong lessons from WWII. We learned to despise political anti-semitism when we should have learned to despise political scapegoating. We learned to despise scientific racism when we should have learned to despise identity politics.

Had we looked at the other big totalitarian disaster (the Soviet union) we might have learned to recognise broader patterns rather than highly specific expressions.

So what do we get? Political scapegoating of the unvaccinated, the sexists and the climate-deniers, for they 'stand in the way of progress' and are enemies of the ideology. And we get wokeism, racism with more colourful shirts.