In the Sandmann case, many see the problem as the individual racist,
not the context that created the MAGA movement.
White people can feel good about themselves because, unlike what is claimed about Sandmann, they probably aren't overtly racist.
The later German Romanticism of,
for example E. T. A. Hoffmann's Der Sandmann(The Sandman), 1817,
and Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff's Das Marmorbild(The Marble Statue), 1819, was darker in its motifs and has gothic elements.