They didn’t know what was to happen, we should.
Watch the History channel’s series ‘The Third Reich’ at one point they quote a Jewish women in Germany (circa 1933) talking with some foreigners and she says “No harm will come to the Jews”.. well know how that turned out don’t we?
They didn’t know what was to happen, we should.
However, this is not really a US-centric thing. It’s really just a subset of what is happening to western civilization in its waning months.
Notice I didn’t say “years”, though it could involve a couple.