As an American please be careful blaming all of us for this. Less than 1 in 4 Americans voted for Trump. It doesn’t mean you need to buy an F-150 but please separate the concept of the American people from the GOP voter base. The complexities of our electoral system and our unique racist history made this very hard to avoid. Please don’t assume Americans in general wanted this or are ok with it.

> nobody took the Nazis seriously when they had already written a book about how they saw the world.

This is completely false. A cursory internet search will find many examples. Churchill was a vocal opponent of the Nazis in the 1930s.

> But none of this is shocking.

Right. Nobody who was paying attention is shocked. This includes many Americans.