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In the Musk revolution, lessons from the 20th century will be deleted | Rafael Behr

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Germany used to be held up as a model of collective atonement a case study in the successful application of history to invigilate political moderation.

That has not thwarted the rise of Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), a party with well-exposed neo-Nazi connections.

Elon Musk has called the party the “best hope for the future of Germany ” in a video link to an election rally.

The spirit of this new era was expressed by Peter Thiel , billionaire co-founder of PayPal and Palantir , in a semi-coherent but wholly sinister op-ed published in the Financial Times on the eve of Trump ’s second inauguration.

These people are not ignorant of history, they are threatened by it, and their default solution to any threat is deletion.

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