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Very true.
And among our other sins, we started eugenics and medical experimentation on unknowing or unwilling subjects: the Tuskegee experiment with syphilis was only one of many such.
Lobotomies used to be quite fashionable. Forced sterilization became policy in some parts of the USA, that "bastion of freedom for all".
The early Nazi party, supported by figures such as Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh and Joseph Kennedy, took our ideas for their own. Henry Ford was one of Hitler's heroes; it's been said it's difficult to tell their anti-semitic writings apart.
What we think of as 'Nazi' behavior started here. Not only did large segments of the American population support the Nazis, but some people and companies (ex: IBM) continued to sell to them or support them after we were at war.
The United States unfortunately has, as you say, quite a knack for creating monsters.
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