Letter to the editor: History validates concern for future under Trump
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Community Engagement Editor Lori Falce’s column “The sweet justice of The Onion buying Infowars” (Nov. 15, TribLive) was an interesting, timely, insightful report about The Onion, an often very funny satirical news journal, taking over disgraced and disgraceful Alex Jones’ company (I can’t even use the name without an emesis, a word his listeners probably never learned in their third-grade schooling ).
The bad news is that those Infowars’ followers, the proud boys (not worthy of capitalization) and all those others like them are still out there, and they will be back.
Seventy-six million people voted for Donald Trump, among them acquaintances and neighbors who are serious people, who I have confidence will hold the elected president and his administration accountable in the American tradition.
I refer to a historical example to illustrate my deep concern for America’s possible future because all the above named dangerous groups, whatever their overriding political and cultural convictions, are still working, scheming to gain total control.
The National Socialists, Nazis, were only in power from 1933 to 1945 when they needed to be ground to powder along with Germany and Austria. But the Bolshevics were in power from 1917 to 1991, plus or minus five years either way.
I urge readers to do a quick reading about the Nazis’ democratic election to power and about the Bolshevics’ unrelenting, uncompromising seizure of power over larger moderate groups. The evil radicals were always a minority while the mass of “good people” went along.
D’Anthony Kennedy
Plum