Watching the demonstrations in Hamburg and observing the gradual radicalization of the progressive movement as it senses a loss of power in America a few historical parallels emerged for me.
America is threatened , and as the President said so well in Poland, Western Civilization itself is threatened, mostly from within, although it is beset by external foes.
My parents knew the Great Depression first hand, it formed much of their character. For many Americans it loosened the bonds to the American Ideal and sent them looking for other ways, other answers.
Our elites from Joe Kennedy to Charles Lindbergh to George Bernard Shaw saw the strongman fascism in Europe as a model for the future of humanity. Many agreed in the 1930s.
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v15/v15n3p6_weber.html
“Mussolini’s conception of power and authority, the New York Times wrote in November 1923, “has many points in common with that of the men who inspired our own constitution – John Adams, Hamilton and Washington.” One of the most widely read magazines of the period, The Saturday Evening Post (with almost three million subscribers in 1930) published numerous articles praising Mussolini and his regime. ”
“Mussolini’s regime received particularly warm praise from America’s business leaders. In his 1972 work, Prof. Diggins writes (pp. 146-47): “With few exceptions, the dominant voices of business responded to Fascism with a hearty enthusiasm. Favorable editorials, could be read in publications such as Barron’s, Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin, Commerce and Finance, Nation’s Business (the official organ of the US Chamber of Commerce), and the reputable Wall Street Journal. Aside from the press, the list of outspoken business admirers reads like a Wall Street ‘Who’s Who’.””
https://gizmodo.com/how-american-nazis-used-summer-camps-to-indoctrinate-th-1743267747
http://www.americainwwii.com/articles/americans-for-hitler/
You can find many willing connections from corporate leaders who willingly did business with the fascists, assuming that model would be part of their future market.
America’s elites failed her then, attracted as they were to other elite based systems.
Then we had organized groups like the German Bund, the Silver League and more who were to be the street muscle for the next steps.
History may not repeat but it sure rhymes well.
Today America’s elites are fond of globalism, uttering phrases like “America First” sends them into apoplexy, they willingly import whole populations to dilute the power of the middle class and have destroyed the educational system that once conquered illiteracy for most.
We are in a war, a cold civil war and I pray we have found our Grant.




Ideas matter. And the idea of islam matters a lot. Unfortunately we are still being politically correct in that quarter.
We allow the likes of Sabour to go unrenounced and unopposed when she speaks and organizes her nasty muslim demonstrations. “Lawfare” works – if you let it.
Reagan said a lot of nice things, but what he DID mostly was take down the USSR. That is not an inconsequential event, but back at home the nasties had gone unchecked, and they continue. Now with Trump perhaps we will see these get their comeupance.
The islamists may have it right when they speak of us as the “crusaders”.
We will always have external foes such as Islam and others.
What matters and is so infuriating as TKC1101 highlights early in his article is the preponderance of enemies within.
Before we can fight the external foes we should purge those within.
You know how combat goes, Brent. No time to regroup. We’re going to have to fight both side simultaneously. Unfortunately.
Sad, but probably correct.