Well, that was one thing you had to give [Makann] credit for. He wanted to run out the Gilgameshers. Everybody was in favor of that. Now, Trask could remember something he'd gotten from Harkaman. There had been Hitler, back at the end of the First Century Pre-Atomic; hadn't he gotten into power because everybody was in favor of running out the Christians, or the Moslems, or the Albigensians, or somebody? . H. Beam Piper
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The author in the quote above, H.L. Mencken, was talking about the Christian-centric world of the early 1900s. As quoted above, Mencken wrote that Hitler rose to power because he was supported by everyone. Mencken's point here is that people could not see beyond their own beliefs and prejudices when it came to excluding certain groups from society.

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