I like to think that we leave our children an example of fighting fascists at home as well as abroad. Until this moment we have not easily acknowledged the permanent and festering fascist movements in American history, and how these are simply the growing weeds that have always been here. Maybe they do us a favor. Maybe they will keep us from being complacent, in the knowledge that we could lose this democracy, and the hope of a better world at any moment.
I like to think that we leave our children an example of fighting fascists at home as well as abroad. Until this moment we have not easily acknowledged the permanent and festering fascist movements in American history, and how these are simply the growing weeds that have always been here. Maybe they do us a favor. Maybe they will keep us from being complacent, in the knowledge that we could lose this democracy, and the hope of a better world at any moment.
When I asked my mother, a Holocaust survivor, what she learned from her experiences she thought briefly and replied, “Animals are better than people.”
Trump, standing before his rabid audience, calling migrants animals is affirming her statement.