Horkheimer held fascists and ordinary Germans grasped Nazi fragility better than Jewish émigrés did.

Evidence

According to Horkheimer, not only were the fascists themselves more advanced than the people he was criticizing, since they had always seen the fragility' of the state the Jews longed to return to, but so too were the German people, who are desperately showing off their belief in the Führer, but have already seen through him better than any of those who call Hitler a madman and Bismarck a genius’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 281

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the book’s recurring claim that the manipulated masses were not merely deluded, a theme running through the Institute’s mass-culture analyses. — connects to: Horkheimer treated the well-off sensitive minority as those who grasp systemic social evil; Horkheimer dismissed the Nazi-versus-German distinction as a lapse into totalitarian cynicism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1630
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Horkheimer treated the well-off sensitive minority as those who grasp systemic social evil; Horkheimer dismissed the Nazi-versus-German distinction as a lapse into totalitarian cynicism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1630

Broader Connections

• Horkheimer dismissed the Nazi-versus-German distinction as a lapse into totalitarian cynicism #complicates (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1630