I immediately thought of Cabaret—the movie with Liza Minnelli—how the patrons of the club slowly started to include more and more Nazis. In the beginning, the Nazis gets thrown out of the club when they go around asking for donations. By the end of the movie, the crowd is full of them. That’s why seeing the one red hat scared you. It’s a potential harbinger of that shift.

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Everything’s Blurry
Everything’s Blurry

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