To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTHistorian Robert Paxton begins one of his books by asserting: Fascism was the major political innovation of the twentieth century, and the source of much of its pain.
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Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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The Fascist game plan: a single party, speaking with one voice, controlling every state institution, claiming to represent all people, and labeling the entire sham a triumph of the popular will.
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How can one be bored in a world where a billion examples of human ingenuity, peculiarity, pigheadedness, and compassion are on regular view?
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While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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In 2016, Fascism was searched on the Merriam-Webster dictionary website more often than any other word in English except surreal, which experienced a sudden spike after the November presidential election.
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A Fascist who launches his career by being voted into office will have a claim to legitimacy that others do not.
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Bill Clinton observed that when people are uncertain, they’d rather have leaders who are strong and wrong than right and weak.
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Fascism did not die with Mussolini, he warned. Hitler is finished, but the seeds spread by his disordered mind have firm root in too many fanatical brains.
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The People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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A spoonful of sugar can be as helpful in dealing with foreign diplomats as it is in child psychology, for these are not unrelated fields.
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If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
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As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
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