Strange but true, I'm glad I've lived long enough to see this. It's destroyed most of the truths I've held to be self-evident. Keep in mind that I came of political age during the Vietnam era. I was a fairly savvy adult through the Nixon administration and Watergate (including Agnew's resignation). I have watched what Dana Milbank calls …
Strange but true, I'm glad I've lived long enough to see this. It's destroyed most of the truths I've held to be self-evident. Keep in mind that I came of political age during the Vietnam era. I was a fairly savvy adult through the Nixon administration and Watergate (including Agnew's resignation). I have watched what Dana Milbank calls "the 25-year crack-up of the Republican Party."
But this blows me away. Until now my brain understood how the Germans fell for Hitler; after all, I've read (more than once) Milton Mayer's 1955 classic THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933–45. But I didn't really *get* it, like maybe it all happened in an alternative reality? Now, seeing it unfold in real-time -- I get it.
Strange but true, I'm glad I've lived long enough to see this. It's destroyed most of the truths I've held to be self-evident. Keep in mind that I came of political age during the Vietnam era. I was a fairly savvy adult through the Nixon administration and Watergate (including Agnew's resignation). I have watched what Dana Milbank calls "the 25-year crack-up of the Republican Party."
But this blows me away. Until now my brain understood how the Germans fell for Hitler; after all, I've read (more than once) Milton Mayer's 1955 classic THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933–45. But I didn't really *get* it, like maybe it all happened in an alternative reality? Now, seeing it unfold in real-time -- I get it.