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4. "and, in the words of Zarah Leander’s popular 1942 song “I Know There Will Be a Miracle One Day,” was supposed to come to pass one more time after Germany had begun to lose the war. The common vocabulary is remarkable.”

Excerpt From
Hitler's First Hundred Days
Peter Fritzsche

So much like Trump, never apologize, I'm the only one to fix it.

'The common vocabulary is remarkable.'

“The conspirators were not trying to solve a serious problem, the crisis in governance or finances; they were working hard to reach an ambitious ideological goal—to destroy the republic by any means necessary. It took a long, long time, when Germany was already in ruins, for conservatives to understand that they had made a pact with the devil in 1933.”

Excerpt From
Hitler's First Hundred Days
Peter Fritzsche

Déjàvu. This all seems so–familiar, right? Like, we've done this all before. But, that can't be. Can it? It can't happen here, right?..

Judgment at Nuremberg, 1961. Richard Widmark as prosecutor Col. Tad Lawson; directed and produced by Stanley Kramer, and written by Abby Mann.

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If #PastIsPrologue , the weak #Debate performance of #JoeBiden will be seen as a low point in the #2024election.

But unlike during the #2020election , #JoeBiden knows that he will not have a physiological rejuvenation in the next few months. I believe that he will voluntarily withdraw before the #DemocraticConvention , having faith that Democrats will rally around the #POTUS and #VP nominees, creating *once again* unstoppable momentum.

Stay tuned to #USpol.

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“In 1838, concerned that mob violence imperiled the nation’s fledgling democratic institutions, Lincoln predicted that the gravest “danger” to democracy was never going to originate overseas but “must spring up amongst us.… If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.”

Birchers
Matthew Dallek

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“Constitutionalists were entitled to rule, and either they were going to work within the system to achieve their vision of “constitutional government,” or, if the ballot failed them, they were going to take up arms. By 1974, some members identified violence as the only solution to the ills plaguing the United States.

Birchers
Matthew Dallek

“The fact is clear, you can’t talk with a Bircher,” [..] The typical Bircher “is so aggressive in defense of the card he carries that he seems to lose sight of country and human dignity. So the best way to beat him is at the polls. Every time he raises his paranoid head, we will be there after him. Sometimes we will win, sometimes we will lose. But, he will know that we are watching.”

Where have we heard this before, “very fine people”:
“In January 1962 Buckley and Goldwater agreed during a meeting at the Breakers in Palm Beach to visibly divorce themselves and the conservative movement from the Birch Society’s wildest conspiracy theories by casting Welch as the crackpot his critics had alleged while at the same time defending Birch members, whom Goldwater called “nice people.”

Birchers
Matthew Dallek

“I have a horrible feeling of seeing…a civilization dying even before its actual death….How delicate a fabric this thing we call modern civilization really is.”

Franklin Roosevelt close adviser, Adolf Berle, writing in his diary on occasion of the Hitler-Stalin non-aggression pact, August 1939—Berle, a year before, had regarded fears of Hitler’s intentions as overblown.