It Is Happening Here, Trump Is Already Early-Stage Mussolini

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The false threat of murderous immigrants, the draconian response, a government agency going rogue—it’s all been seen before and it’s very dangerous.
CLIVE IRVING 06.30.18 12:00 AM ET

Is there a moment when a fanatical leader can be stopped before he takes a nation into the abyss? A moment when those with the moral determination to stop him can act before it is too late?

These questions are not academic. Every day Trump stress tests this republic’s defenses against a demagogue.

History has such moments. They need to be heeded.

In Italy the moment came on Aug. 16, 1924.

Not even Mussolini could have imagined concentration camps for babies. But that is where we are.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/it-is-happening-here-trump-is-already-early-stage-mussolini

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1. Not sure how anyone can say Mussolini couldn't have imagined concentration camps for babies.

Maybe he couldn't have imagined *starting* there,....