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the way to put America first was to help our European (and Asian) partners rebuild and develop dynamic economies of their own. The same thinking led to Truman’s Point Four Program, which made U.S. technical assistance available in Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East.
A Fascist, however, expects the crowd to have his back. Where kings try to settle people down, Fascists stir them up so that when the fighting begins, their foot soldiers have the will and the firepower to strike first.
With NATO on watch, the Bosnian Serbs could no longer play the bully; their reign of terror was over.
through a judicial process is it possible to establish individual culpability for crimes that might otherwise be attributed to an entire group—and nothing does more to trigger additional cycles of violence than perceptions of collective guilt.
INNOVATION IS THE PRIMARY GENERATOR OF EMPLOYMENT, BUT also the number one destroyer.
support for nondemocratic options is most evident among those, whether on the political right or left, who lack a higher education and are unhappy with their economic circumstances—precisely
Disinformation campaigns are hardly novel. During the American War for Independence, the rebel minister to Paris, Benjamin Franklin, used his printing press to circulate stories he had made up about British atrocities.
Even those too lazy to vote feel it their birthright to blast our elected representatives from every direction.
all of Caracas was bugged and the contents of select recordings were played on Chávez’s favorite television and radio programs, humiliating political opponents and wayward cabinet ministers alike.
During the Great Depression, America’s economic output declined by one-third. In the 1990s, Russia’s shrank by more than half.
In 2015, the largest single donation in Dutch politics was given by a right-wing American group to that country’s Party for Freedom, whose leader, Geert Wilders, calls for shuttering mosques and who campaigns on the slogan “Make the Netherlands Great Again.”
In Germany, belief that the American president can be counted on to do the right thing shrank from 86 percent under his predecessor to 11 percent under Trump. In France, the fall was from 84 percent to 14; in Japan, 74 to 24; in South Korea, 84 to 17.
If populists are, as some suggest, the bad guys in an epic debate about the future of democracy, who exactly are the good guys? Elitists?
What makes a movement Fascist is not ideology but the willingness to do whatever is necessary—including the use of force and trampling on the rights of others—to achieve victory and command obedience.
the United States has been at war since 2001 based on a sixty-word-long congressional authorization
