Lillian Carter showed off this T-shirt (“Jimmy Won!”) just after her son was elected as 39th President of the United States today 1976:
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Listen to what Trump told a Pennsylvania rally two years ago, just before the 2020 election:
“If we win on Tuesday or — thank you very much, Supreme Court — shortly thereafter…”
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If we don't have an American democracy that works, please don't hope to get effective national action on the economy or any other crucial issues from an autocracy.
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Mussolini and Hitler never had temerity to tell voters that once they seized power, their parties would never lose another election.
But in 1934, Mussolini's party "won" 99.85 percent.
In 1936, Hitler's Nazis "won" 98.8 percent.
We are watching how democracies are murdered.
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Fascists in history have encouraged and exploited political violence to seize power. Hitler's Berlin, 1933:
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Our original Room of the Year. Now. More than ever. and his book ladder are needed and appreciated. 10/10
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Before Presidential election against Nixon and George Wallace, Hubert Humphrey hosted Election Eve telethon for himself from Hollywood, with Paul Newman, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Carson, this week 1968:
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Mussolini a hundred years ago yesterday, after he and Fascists took power in Italy:
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FDR, April 1938: “A democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power…where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That…is fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group or by any other controlling private power.”
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Remember how often in history fascism has walked hand in hand with hatred of Jews and other minorities in a society.
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When an American politician speaks in fascist-sounding language, never brush aside what you are hearing as meaningless rhetoric. Do not fail to learn from the tragic history of 1930s Europe.
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In Sinclair Lewis's 1935 "It Can't Happen Here" (performed on stage) a demagogic President, feigning populism, arrests political opponents (as shown here) and conspires with domestic terrorists, cracks down on business and finance, crushes liberties for women and others. Beware.
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Orwell’s “1984” (in 1956 film):
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Truman also writes to JFK, "Mr. President don't let these damned columnists and editorial writers discourage you. In my opinion you are on the right track. The President is just as great as the Congress--and usually greater--when he exercises his Constitutional Prerogatives."
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Truman privately to JFK, August 1962:
"You are going through the same...troubles that Franklin Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln and i had to meet. Don't like to put myself in that high class--but I had a hell of a time. You meet 'em, cuss 'em and give 'em hell and you'll win in 1964."
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Ex-President Harry Truman plays the piano for JFK, Jackie Kennedy, LBJ, Lady Bird Johnson and other guests, White House East Room, tonight 1961: #JFKL
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Mussolini and Fascists seized power in Italy a hundred years ago this week:
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Anyone wish to suggest a fitting title for Pence's forthcoming book?
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John Adams becomes first President to move into Executive Mansion, today 1800:
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“How Trumpism Survives Trump”—Time Magazine, October 2018:
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“Powers that will make martial law seem like anarchy."
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In "Manchurian Candidate," late Angela Lansbury's character speaks of "rallying a nation of television viewers to hysteria, to sweep us up into the White House with powers that will make martial law seem like anarchy."
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"Republicans will never lose another election in Wisconsin after I’m elected governor.”
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Segregationist Dixiecrat ad for Strom Thurmond and Fielding Wright, 1948, saying, “They deplore…cheap political” efforts “to win votes from un-American minorities”:
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“Freedom Not Socialism”—George Wallace 1968:
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Nixon pre-election ad 1968. Sound familiar?
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“Democracy belongs to every American”—1952
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Anyone wish to suggest a fitting title for Pence's forthcoming book?
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Publisher’s blurb for Pence’s forthcoming book:
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Why does Donald Trump want every Republican at every level to insist that elections are for suckers and the results don't count?
He does it so that the idea that elections shouldn't be the way we do things anymore becomes the rallying cry for the Republican Party.
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Mussolini and Fascists seized power in Italy a hundred years ago this week:
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Racist and anti-Semitic real estate covenant in 20th century Maryland:
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“Our vote this year is about if we ever get to vote again.”
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In ugly ad, anti-Semitic fascist radio priest Father Coughlin of Michigan, 1938, raises money by falsely claiming that European Jews are to blame for their own plight because they are partial to Communism:
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Openly Anti-Semitic Justice James McReynolds, a Woodrow Wilson appointee (1914-1941), who shunned his Jewish colleagues on the Supreme Court, Louis Brandeis and Benjamin Cardozo:
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1970 racist handbill circulated by supporters of George Wallace for second term as Alabama Governor:
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Racist 1946 ad for Eugene Talmadge for Governor of Georgia: “To Redeem Georgia from Chaos….He is the white people’s candidate. Let’s keep Georgia white”:
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