The author seems to be complaining that this society isn't sufficiently depicted as morally abhorrent. The "alt-right", according to the article's author, is co

The author seems to be complaining that this society isn't sufficiently depicted as morally abhorrent. The "alt-right", according to the article's author, is complaining that it's too much depicted as such. In reality the author is trying to defend the absurd point that Nazis put existing corporate leadership in charge of the economy. This seems to be a veiled attempt to depict both the current administration, full of business leaders, and proposals of libertarians to put Silicon Valley business leadership in charge of the government as Nazis. This is absurd. Like all socialist totalitarians, Nazis put government bureaucrats in charge of corporations entirely, rather than the other way around. Both left "middle management" in place for a while, but of course soon those bureaucrats realize that positions are the new currency and start trading them, so managers get replaced and it becomes a true government company, like the railways. There are many huge differences between, say, Russia's communism and the Third Reich, but this is not one of them. Nazis, like all totalitarian socialists, believe that their ideology should totally determine all actions by everyone, everywhere, about everything. As a simple banal illustration: both Nazism and Communism (and other forms of real socialism) required jokes to be approved. Jokes, just used in a conversation between 2 people. You cannot imagine how normal this was: both had government bureaucrats whose job it was to compile acceptable things to say to neighbors and publish this information. They both had government rules about what kinds of hats were acceptable, and you could get arrested for even just getting it wrong. Scientific efforts by the Nazis were exceptional in many ways, but not how they were funded. The thing people forget about Nazis is that they were incredibly popular, especially amongst the young crowd. People in high schools, people going to universities, people creating new and exiting "startups". That was their base. Conservatives were their big (real) enemy.