Do you think this quote from Bonhoeffer is relevant today?

“The upsurge of power [they experience] makes such an overwhelming impression that people are deprived of their independent judgment, and—more or less unconsciously—give up trying to assess a new state of affairs for themselves. The fact that the fool is often stubborn must not mislead us into thinking that he is independent. One feels in fact, when talking to him, that one is dealing, not with the man himself, but with slogans, catchwords, and the like, which have taken hold of him. He is under the spell, he is blinded, his very nature is being misused and exploited. Having thus become a passive instrument, the fool will be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil. Here lies the danger of a diabolical exploitation that can do irreparable damage to human beings.”

A friend shared this quote from Dietrich Bonhoeffer. It comes from a shorty essay,”After Ten Years.” This isn’t the kind of thing Bonhoeffer could publish publicly for obvious reasons, so he shared it privately with friends in 1943, reflecting on 10 years under the rule of a malignant narcissist. By prolonged submission to the malignant narcissist, people were rendering themselves “fools” and were being sucked into “folly.” They were simultaneously becoming victims of “diabolical exploitation” and “capable of any evil.”