It’s a sort of wild time to be someone who’s skeptical of a lot of the baseline assumptions that underpin how we talk about American economic power in geopolitics because the people you’re supposed to be arguing with don’t seem to understand anything about the nature of American power to begin with

Agree with your broader point, but for the record Germany absolutely did continue electing Nazis (at one point most FDP members in the Bundestag were former Nazi party members) and also appointed them to high positions for decades—basically until they aged out!