Had [Tucker] Carlson and his cohort attempted their revisionism [of Hitler’s evilness] 20 years ago, they would have encountered a chorus of contradiction from real people who had experienced the history they sought to rewrite and know where its conspiratorial calumnies lead. But today, most of those people are dead, and a new generation is rising that never witnessed the Holocaust firsthand or heard about it from family and friends who did.

The question is not whether America’s self-understanding is changing; it’s how far that change will go—and what the consequences will be.

— “The Maga Influencers Rehabilitating Hitler,” The Atlantic


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