Tim Miller

Liked the German culture.

Exactly.

He went right there.

And he did his dissertation on the rhetoric of fascism.

So, whereas, you know, with some of these other tech bros, you know, you see them spouting off online and it's just like, have you ever read a book?

Right.

You know, it's just like the ignorance is... He's read books and he learned German and you said he studied with Habermas and like...

He can't plead ignorance.

And he knows where this sort of stuff goes and where it can lead.

And when you see people being grabbed off the streets in broad daylight by masked law enforcement officials, we've seen this in other countries and it typically doesn't end well.

And it's an interesting discussion because, and I've said this to him and he kind of deflects, but it's like, tell me one place where right-wing authoritarianism has come to power where if it hasn't started with the Jews, it doesn't land on them at some point.

That has got to be the concern.

And it's, you know, whether it's anti-Semitism on the left or what we see now, this outbreak of anti-Semitism on the right.

And I've made this point as well to him and he doesn't disagree.

You know, he's always maintained that Trump is not an anti-Semite and it's fine.

OK, if you don't think he is, that's fine.

But

The point is he's created this permission structure.

This is beyond him at this point.

Now people feel very free to express bigotry in a way that wasn't the case 10 years ago.