“Did they know what Communism, “Bolshevism,” was? They did not; not my friends. Except for Herr Kessler, Teacher Hildebrandt, and young Horstmar Rupprecht (after he entered the university, in 1941), they knew Bolshevism as a specter which, as it took on body in their imaginings, embraced not only the Communists but the Social Democrats, the trade-unions, and, of course, the Jews, the gypsies, the neighbor next door whose dog had bit them, and his dog; the bundled root cause of all their past, present, and possible tribulations.” TrumpSocialismRight WingParanoiaRepublicansMagaBoogeymanUseful IdiotsCommunism Cultural Marxism Book:They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 Source: They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45