@snood,
That’s a different analogy to the attitude of post war Germany.
They were a defeated nation, there’s not just the guilt, there’s the suffering they endured and were still enduring in the East. The feeling they’d been punished enough may have skewed answers.
That’s not where Trump is right now, it’s more like the situation in the early 1930s, where like today fascists used the excuse of left wing agitators to start cracking a few heads and firing a few shots.