I think that's not the kind of thing she was aiming for in the article. She's talking more about personal decisions about whether you as a person would join the

I think that's not the kind of thing she was aiming for in the article. She's talking more about personal decisions about whether you as a person would join them, not these kinds of generic political deals. In other words, her point is that if you know someone on a personal level, that alone is enough to tell if they would make the personal decision to go Nazi. It's not even anything specifically to do with wealth or power, per se.