Alan: Fascists start out as populists. During his rise to power, Hitler looked like a devoted nationalist with funny hair.
Update: Ivana Trump's Revelations Concerning Donald's Fondness For Hitler's Speeches
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David Brooks: The GOP doesn’t realize “this is a Joe McCarthy moment” — history will judge them for where they stood
It's strange to think that one's position on Donald Trump is worthy of historical import, but it will be
In his Friday New York Times column, economist David Brooks argued that unbeknownst to itself, the Republican Party is having “a Joe McCarthy moment” — meaning that history will judge people by “where they stood at this time,” and that those “who walked with Trump will be tainted forever after for the degradation of standards and the general election slaughter.”
He wrote that America will, after this election, need “a new national story,” because up until now, “America’s story has been some version of the rags-to-riches story, the lone individual who rises from the bottom through pluck and work.” That story doesn’t work anymore, because as the relative successes of the Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders campaigns have demonstrated, people believe that system is rigged:
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