Trump rallies: demented, dangerous, and off-the-rails

[nosaj]

@Hanglyman

Americans today are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism or Communism in the twentieth century.

Considerably less wise, I’d say. We have those examples to look to, still in living memory, and yet…

As I like to repeat at the slightest opportunity…

@nosaj

Years ago around ANZAC Day (the Australian social equivalent of Memorial Day or Remembrance Day), I read a comment by someone whose father won medals for shooting nazis in World War II, to the effect of “My father always told me: If a bunch of people as educated and civilized as the Germans can fall for this nonsense, the rest of us had better watch out.”