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“The key to the rise of authoritarians, they explained, is their use of language and false history.[3] Authoritarians rise when economic, social, political, or religious change makes members of a formerly powerful group feel as if they have been left behind. Their frustration makes”
― Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
― Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
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“Nazi game plan aimed to disunite the United States by tearing at the weakest political and cultural seams in American society:”
― Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
― Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
“Enlightenment thinkers had rejected leadership based on religion or birth, arguing instead that society moved forward when people made good choices after hearing arguments based on fact.”
― Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
― Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
“Democracies die more often through the ballot box than at gunpoint.”
― Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
― Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
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“The evidence will show that they intended to abolish the Republican and Democratic parties. The evidence will show that they intended to abolish freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, freedom from arrest without cause, and all the other civil liberties guaranteed us by the constitution.”
― Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
― Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
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