But I'm confused by this one statement:
But, had Franklin Roosevelt applied the normal rules of decorum then, Hitler and the Socialists would barely be five decades into their thousand-year Reich.
Let's see: January 30, 1933 (The "Machtergreifung." Hitler becomes Reichskanzler; the Nazi Party comes to power) plus five decades would take us into the 1980s.
Even if we took 1945 as the base-line, that would only take us into the mid-1990s. Is someone's math wrong here?
Regards,
Confused regarding the Mittens statement. Who would EVER think that? But the other points were well delivered.
Good catch. The author’s math is off by at least two decades.
Perhaps he meant to say “generations” not decades. That would be correct since we are approaching 100 years since Hitler’s rise to power in the 1930s.
I love this essay. However, I would not characterize Trump as crass. Like General Patton, he is full of praise for good people who do their jobs well. The “crassness” is saved for the useful idiots who do everything they can to undermine him and the country—the mainstream media and the DemocRATs.
The war that the left has been waging against our country was fueled by Soviet moles starting (I believe) in the 1950s. So the leftists who claim, for example, that investigating Joe Biden’s profound corruption is treasonous are carrying on the legacy of the USSR. They have never been patriotic. While the useful idiots do everything they can to effect converting the country into a socialist dictatorship, they have no ability to conceptualize how miserable life in their dystopia would actually be—for those who survive the purges, anyway. And so the war continues.
I noticed that too. And, if I read him correctly it’s only been 50 years since the 60’s.
But that should not detract from an otherwise really EXCELLENT ARTICLE. This is a rare FREEPER MUST READ.