terms fitting todays toxic polarization

[saw]

1. Malignant Bonding....an impulse to solidify communities built on resentment, bigotry, and a desire to exclude those who are "different"

2. The Scarcity Mind.....a psychological state that frames social life as a zero-sum game pitting oneself and one's social affinity group against a racial, ethnic, or class-based other.

3. Trans-historical Trauma....the fears and compensating behaviors that accumulate over many centuries of physical and emotional violence and become encoded in our collective behavior.

[mnaz]

I bet these factored into 1930s Germany to a significant degree.