Trump Is Threatening the Very Things that Saved Democracy in the 1940s
Hate and division are stoked as a matter of political strategy. Our moral and mental defenses are fogged by a constant barrage of propaganda.
My friends, if democracy has faced a comparable challenge, it was in 1940, after France had fallen.
Americans gathered around their radios in fear as they learned the terrible news.
Paris fell on May 14. A puppet government was installed and a negotiated surrender…
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