Patriotic Americans must unify to protect our democracy and our future from Donald Trump's authoritarianism
Today, neofascist Donald Trump is being inaugurated as the forty-seventh president of the United States. It’s a tragic and dark moment for our nation — an enemy of the republic is once again becoming its most powerful and prominent elected official.
Trump’s return to power puts America at grave risk of a descent into autocracy, which would put an end to hundreds of years of an experiment in rule by the people that has made the United States a leading and respected voice in the world community.
Trump supporters scoff at such talk, but the risk is real, and we need only consider history to appreciate that. For example, Germany after World War I was a democracy, but by World War II, it was a dictatorship controlled by Adolf Hitler and his minions.
There are plenty of parallels between Trump and Hitler — and we know that Trump admires Hitler. That is not an attribute that any officeholder anywhere in our country should have, especially not our nation’s President, who should be a person of the highest moral character, with a commitment to integrity, empathy, and mutual responsibility.
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