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“Enlightenment thinkers had rejected leadership based on religion or birth, arguing instead that society moved forward when people made good choices after hearing arguments based on fact.”
― Heather Cox Richardson, Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

“By the 1880s, it was common knowledge that industrialists controlled Congress.”
― Heather Cox Richardson, Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

“Nazi game plan aimed to disunite the United States by tearing at the weakest political and cultural seams in American society:”
― Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

“America is at a crossroads. A country that once stood as the global symbol of democracy has been teetering on the brink of authoritarianism. How did this happen? Is the fall of democracy in the United States inevitable? And if not, how can we reclaim our democratic principles? This crisis in American democracy crept up on many of us. For generations of Americans, grainy news footage from World War II showing row upon row of Nazi soldiers goose-stepping in military parades tricked us into thinking that the Adolf Hitlers of the world arrive at the head of giant armies. So long as we didn’t see tanks in our streets, we imagined that democracy was secure. But in fact, Hitler’s rise to absolute power began with his consolidation of political influence to win 36.8 percent of the vote in 1932, which he parlayed into a deal to become German chancellor. The absolute dictatorship came afterward.”
― Heather Cox Richardson, Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America