Trump Is Threatening the Very Things that Saved Democracy in the 1940s [View all]

My friends, if democracy has faced a comparable challenge, it was in 1940, after France had fallen.

Americans gathered around their radios in fear as they learned the terrible news.

Paris fell on May 14. A puppet government was installed and a negotiated surrender to NAZI power was in the works. In England, the government of Neville Chamberlain collapsed, and Winston Churchill became Prime Minister. He told the country that the battle of France was over, and the battle of Britain had begun.

We are in that moment.

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