Living our future history

Is this what it always feels like?

There was no time Monday to catch up with the latest episode of Rachel Maddow’s ULTRA. The obvious parallels between the 1940s fifth column in the U.S. and the pro-fascist sentiments roiling the land today are truly disturbing. But Maddow’s recovered history is also a source of hope. The U.S. and its WWII allies defeated fascism.

For 70 years, anyway.

Presidential historian Michael Beschloss, too, is aware of the parallels.

Patriotic American World War II poster: pic.twitter.com/FZi3pdMdGU

— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) November 7, 2022

Beschloss also reminds Twitter what Americans opposed to the Axis stood for: Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms.

FDR warned Congress, January 1941, that "the democratic way of life is…being directly assailed in every part of the world…by arms or by secret spreading of poisonous propaganda."
He warned of "those who would give up essential liberty." pic.twitter.com/WImJmqx39Y

— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) November 7, 2022

Your freedoms are on the ballot today. Go defend yours.

I’m out canvassing for votes. We’ll see you on the other side.

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Please go vote and take family and friends.