So people at the time really saw fascism not just as an evil but as an aggressive evil that seemed to be spreading.
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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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Its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget.
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No one has better summed up the American appetite for spectacle, the link between sports and politics, and the absolute madness of George W. Bush’s Iraq War.
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It sure is a rising tide, and we have a particularly nasty exemplar of it in the U.S., in Donald Trump.
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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today’s wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are
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The Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane for example, the Stuka dive bomber, the 88 millimeter artillery piece, which could be used both for antiaircraft purposes and also shelling on the ground.
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Because they wanted a sympathetic ally in power. So I think it really was the opening act of World War II.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain
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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
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